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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

By : Jan Hohenheim, Daniel Durante
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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

By: Jan Hohenheim, Daniel Durante

Overview of this book

Mozilla’s Rust is gaining much attention with amazing features and a powerful library. This book will take you through varied recipes to teach you how to leverage the Standard library to implement efficient solutions. The book begins with a brief look at the basic modules of the Standard library and collections. From here, the recipes will cover packages that support file/directory handling and interaction through parsing. You will learn about packages related to advanced data structures, error handling, and networking. You will also learn to work with futures and experimental nightly features. The book also covers the most relevant external crates in Rust. By the end of the book, you will be proficient at using the Rust Standard library.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

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Keep in mind that you should use this technique sparingly. Most of the time, it is clearer to just accept and operate on a slice instead. However, it makes sense to use this in combination with other macros and higher kinds of concepts where the analogy of a graspable list of things breaks down. Finding a good example for this is difficult since they tend to be extremely specific. You can find one of them at the end of the book though.