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The Complete Rust Programming Reference Guide

You're reading from   The Complete Rust Programming Reference Guide Design, develop, and deploy effective software systems using the advanced constructs of Rust

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Product type Course
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828103
Length 698 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vesa Kaihlavirta Vesa Kaihlavirta
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Rahul Sharma Rahul Sharma
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Table of Contents (29) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Getting Started with Rust FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Projects with Cargo 3. Tests, Documentation, and Benchmarks 4. Types, Generics, and Traits 5. Memory Management and Safety 6. Error Handling 7. Advanced Concepts 8. Concurrency 9. Metaprogramming with Macros 10. Unsafe Rust and Foreign Function Interfaces 11. Logging 12. Network Programming in Rust 13. Building Web Applications with Rust 14. Lists, Lists, and More Lists 15. Robust Trees 16. Exploring Maps and Sets 17. Collections in Rust 18. Algorithm Evaluation 19. Ordering Things 20. Finding Stuff 21. Random and Combinatorial 22. Algorithms of the Standard Library 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Setting up a Rust development environment


Rust has decent support for most code editors out there, whether it be vim, Emacs, intellij IDE, Sublime, Atom, or Visual Studio Code. Cargo is also well supported by these editors, and the ecosystem has several tools that enhance the experience, such as the following:

  • rustfmt: It formats code according to conventions that are mentioned in the Rust style guide.
  • clippy: This warns you of common mistakes and potential code smells. Clippy relies on compiler plugins that are marked as unstable, so it is available with nightly Rust only. With rustup, you can switch to nightly easily.
  • racer: It can do lookups into Rust standard libraries and provides code completion and tool tips.

Among the aforementioned editors, the most mature IDE experience is provided by Intellij IDE and Visual Studio Code (vscode). We will cover setting up the development environment for vscode in this chapter as it is more accessible and lightweight. For vscode, the Rust community has...

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