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Rust Quick Start Guide

By : Daniel Arbuckle
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Rust Quick Start Guide

By: Daniel Arbuckle

Overview of this book

Rust is an emerging programming language applicable to areas such as embedded programming, network programming, system programming, and web development. This book will take you from the basics of Rust to a point where your code compiles and does what you intend it to do! This book starts with an introduction to Rust and how to get set for programming, including the rustup and cargo tools for managing a Rust installation and development work?ow. Then you'll learn about the fundamentals of structuring a Rust program, such as functions, mutability, data structures, implementing behavior for types, and many more. You will also learn about concepts that Rust handles differently from most other languages. After understanding the Basics of Rust programming, you will learn about the core ideas, such as variable ownership, scope, lifetime, and borrowing. After these key ideas, you will explore making decisions in Rust based on data types by learning about match and if let expressions. After that, you'll work with different data types in Rust, and learn about memory management and smart pointers.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Lending

There's one more way we can send information to a different scope and that is by lending. When we move a data value, the receiving scope becomes the value's new owner. When we copy a data value, the receiving scope owns the duplicate it received, and the sending scope retains ownership of the original. When we lend a data value, things can get more complicated, because the original scope retains ownership, but the receiving scope is still allowed to access the data.

The original scope still owns the data, which means that, when that scope ends, the data will go away. If some of the scope's contained data was still loaned to a different scope at that time, the program would likely crash and, since the Rust compiler hates potential crashes, it does not allow us to get into that situation. Instead, it requires that any borrowed information must be returned...