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Creative Projects for Rust Programmers

By : Carlo Milanesi
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Creative Projects for Rust Programmers

By: Carlo Milanesi

Overview of this book

Rust is a community-built language that solves pain points present in many other languages, thus improving performance and safety. In this book, you will explore the latest features of Rust by building robust applications across different domains and platforms. The book gets you up and running with high-quality open source libraries and frameworks available in the Rust ecosystem that can help you to develop efficient applications with Rust. You'll learn how to build projects in domains such as data access, RESTful web services, web applications, 2D games for web and desktop, interpreters and compilers, emulators, and Linux Kernel modules. For each of these application types, you'll use frameworks such as Actix, Tera, Yew, Quicksilver, ggez, and nom. This book will not only help you to build on your knowledge of Rust but also help you to choose an appropriate framework for building your project. By the end of this Rust book, you will have learned how to build fast and safe applications with Rust and have the real-world experience you need to advance in your career.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Questions

  1. What are regular languages, context-free languages, and context-dependent languages?
  2. What is the Backus-Naur form to specify the grammar of a language?
  3. What is a compiler-compiler?
  4. What is a parser combinator?
  5. Why did Nom have to use only macros before the 2018 edition of Rust?
  6. What do the tuple, alt, and map functions of the Nom library do?
  7. What are the possible phases of an interpreter of a programming language, without passing through an intermediate language?
  8. What are the possible phases of a compiler?
  9. What is the purpose of a symbol table, when analyzing the use of variables?
  10. What is the purpose of a symbol table, when interpreting a program?