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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

By : Jan Hohenheim, Daniel Durante
Book Image

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)

Working with TOML

Do you like the simplicity of INI files but wish they were formally specified and had a few more features? So did Tom Preston-Werner, founder of services such as GitHub and Gravatar. He created Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language, or TOML for short. This relatively new format is seeing increasing adoption in new projects. In fact, you have used it multiple times by now as well: Cargo's dependencies are specified in every project's Cargo.toml file!