Rust Essentials - Second Edition: A quick guide to writing fast, safe, and concurrent systems and applications (English Edition) - Softcover

Balbaert, Ivo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788390016 ISBN 13: 9781788390019

Verlag: Packt Publishing, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Leverage the functional programming and concurrency features of Rust and speed up your application development

Key Features

• Get started with Rust to build scalable and high performance applications
• Enhance your application development skills using the power of Rust
• Discover the power of Rust when developing concurrent applications for large and scalable software

Book Description

Rust is the new, open source, fast, and safe systems programming language for the 21st century, developed at Mozilla Research, and with a steadily growing community. It was created to solve the dilemma between high-level, slow code with minimal control over the system, and low-level, fast code with maximum system control. It is no longer necessary to learn C/C++ to develop resource intensive and low-level systems applications. This book will give you a head start to solve systems programming and application tasks with Rust.

We start off with an argumentation of Rust's unique place in today's landscape of programming languages. You'll install Rust and learn how to work with its package manager Cargo. The various concepts are introduced step by step: variables, types, functions, and control structures to lay the groundwork. Then we explore more structured data such as strings, arrays, and enums, and you'll see how pattern matching works.

Throughout all this, we stress the unique ways of reasoning that the Rust compiler uses to produce safe code. Next we look at Rust's specific way of error handling, and the overall importance of traits in Rust code. The pillar of memory safety is treated in depth as we explore the various pointer kinds. Next, you'll see how macros can simplify code generation, and how to compose bigger projects with modules and crates. Finally, you'll discover how we can write safe concurrent code in Rust and interface with C programs, get a view of the Rust ecosystem, and explore the use of the standard library.

What you will learn

• Set up your Rust environment to achieve the highest productivity
• Bridge the performance gap between safe and unsafe languages
• Use pattern matching to create flexible code
• Apply generics and traits to develop widely applicable code
• Organize your code in modules and crates
• Build macros to extend Rust's capabilities and reach
• Apply tasks to tackle problems concurrently in a distributed environment

Table of Contents

1. Starting with Rust
2. Using Variables and Types
3. Using Functions and Control Structures
4. Structuring Data and Matching Patterns
5. Higher Order Functions and Error-Handling
6. Using Traits and OOP in Rust
7. Ensuring Memory Safety and Pointers
8. Organizing Code and Macros
9. Concurrency - Coding for Multicore Execution
10. Programming at the Boundaries
11. Exploring the standard library
12. The ecosystem of crates

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ivo Balbaert is a lecturer in web programming and databases at CVO Antwerpen, a community college in Belgium. He received a PhD in applied physics from the University of Antwerp in 1986. He worked for 20 years in the software industry as a developer and consultant in several companies, and for 10 years as project manager at the University Hospital of Antwerp. From 2000 onwards, he switched to partly teaching and partly developing software (at KHM Mechelen, CVO Antwerpen). He also wrote an introductory book in Dutch about developing in Ruby and Rails, Programmeren met Ruby en Rails, published by Van Duuren Media. In 2012, he authored a book on the Go programming language, The Way to Go, published by iUniverse. He has written a number of introductory books for new programming languages, notably Dart, Julia, Rust, and Red, all published by Packt.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1788390016
• ISBN 13: 9781788390019
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland