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Learning Rust

By : Vesa Kaihlavirta
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Learning Rust

By: Vesa Kaihlavirta

Overview of this book

Rust is a highly concurrent and high performance language that focuses on safety and speed, memory management, and writing clean code. It also guarantees thread safety, and its aim is to improve the performance of existing applications. Its potential is shown by the fact that it has been backed by Mozilla to solve the critical problem of concurrency. Learning Rust will teach you to build concurrent, fast, and robust applications. From learning the basic syntax to writing complex functions, this book will is your one stop guide to get up to speed with the fundamentals of Rust programming. We will cover the essentials of the language, including variables, procedures, output, compiling, installing, and memory handling. You will learn how to write object-oriented code, work with generics, conduct pattern matching, and build macros. You will get to know how to communicate with users and other services, as well as getting to grips with generics, scoping, and more advanced conditions. You will also discover how to extend the compilation unit in Rust. By the end of this book, you will be able to create a complex application in Rust to move forward with.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Title Page
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introducing and Installing Rust
4
Conditions, Recursion, and Loops

What are they?


In a nutshell, we can think of the three facets in these terms.

Ownership

When we think of ownership, we inevitably think of possession. I have a MacBook Pro, which I'm writing this text on currently. It is not part of any finance agreement, stolen, borrowed, or on a lease, therefore the ownership of it is mine.

Borrowing

Should I sell or dispose of my computer, I will release the ownership to the next party, or to the recycling facilities. If my son has a DVD that I want to use, I will borrow it from him—he has not released ownership to me, just given it to me for a finite period. He will keep a record, or a reference, that I have it.

Lifetime

This is how long something lasts and, unfortunately, virtually nothing lasts forever. Once the application or ownership ends, the time from taking ownership to removing ownership, which includes the borrowing of something, is considered the lifetime of that object or process.

Let's consider each of these facets in more detail.