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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

About the Reviewer

Ivo Balbaert is currently a lecturer of (web) programming and databases at CVO Antwerpen (www.cvoantwerpen.be), 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 at several companies, and for 10 years as a project manager at the Antwerp University Hospital. From 2000 onwards, he switched to partly teaching and partly developing software (KHM Mechelen, CVO Antwerpen).

In 2012, he authored a book on the Go programming language, The Way To Go, IUniverse. In 2013, in collaboration with Dzenan Ridzanovic, he wrote Learning Dart and Dart Cookbook, followed by Getting Started with Julia Programming Language and Rust Essentials, all published by Packt.