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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we first defined an extremely simple toy machine language, and then a slightly more complex one to experiment with techniques of machine language manipulation.

The first machine language defined assumes that memory is just a sequence of 16-bit words and that any instruction is composed of two parts of one word each—an opcode and an operand. The second machine language assumes that memory is a sequence of bytes and some instructions can manipulate single bytes, while other instructions can manipulate whole words.

This introduced the endianness issue, which concerns how to interpret two consecutive bytes as a word. As an example, the sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm was first written in Rust and then translated into both machine languages.

For the first machine language, an interpreter was written without using any external library. It was used to first interpret a small number conversion program (word_machine_convert) and then the more complex sieve algorithm...