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Rust Programming By Example

By : Guillaume Gomez, Antoni Boucher
Book Image

Rust Programming By Example

By: Guillaume Gomez, Antoni Boucher

Overview of this book

Rust is an open source, safe, concurrent, practical language created by Mozilla. It runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees safety. This book gets you started with essential software development by guiding you through the different aspects of Rust programming. With this approach, you can bridge the gap between learning and implementing immediately. Beginning with an introduction to Rust, you’ll learn the basic aspects such as its syntax, data types, functions, generics, control flows, and more. After this, you’ll jump straight into building your first project, a Tetris game. Next you’ll build a graphical music player and work with fast, reliable networking software using Tokio, the scalable and productive asynchronous IO Rust library. Over the course of this book, you’ll explore various features of Rust Programming including its SDL features, event loop, File I/O, and the famous GTK+ widget toolkit. Through these projects, you’ll see how well Rust performs in terms of concurrency—including parallelism, reliability, improved performance, generics, macros, and thread safety. We’ll also cover some asynchronous and reactive programming aspects of Rust. By the end of the book, you’ll be comfortable building various real-world applications in Rust.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
3
Events and Basic Game Mechanisms
Index

Documentation


Another very important aspect of a software is documentation. It is useful to describe how to use a project, giving some examples and detailing the complete public API: let's see how we can document a crate in Rust.

Documenting a crate

Documentation is written in comments, but these doc-comments start with a special symbol. We use the token /// to document the item following the comment, and //! to document the item from within this item. Let's start by seeing an example of the latter.

At the top of our crate's root (specifically, in the file main.rs), we'll add the following comment:

//! An FTP server, written using tokio and futures-await.

Here, we use the //! form because we cannot write a comment before a crate; we can only write a comment from within the crate.

Documenting a module

Documenting a module is very similar: we add a comment of the form //! at the top of a module's file. Let's add the following doc-comment in codec.rs:

//! FTP codecs to encode and decode FTP commands...