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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)
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Title Page
Preface
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1
Introducing and Installing Rust
4
Conditions, Recursion, and Loops

Chapter 3. Input and Output

Up to this point, we've only seen data coming from our examples, and then only using the println! macro function. While the println! macro is very useful, we really need to look at output. We also need to know how to get data in, and once the data is in, we have to check that the type entered is the type required.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Examining ways of outputting data
  • Examining how to get data into an application
  • Starting your program with command-line arguments
  • Discussing how a method in Rust is different from a method in other languages
  • A brief introduction to the standard library