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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)

To get the most out of this book

Software/hardware covered in the book OS requirements
You will need version 1.31 of Rust (from December 2018) or a newer version installed on your computer. The content of this book was tested on 64-bit Linux Mint and 32-bit Windows 10 systems. Most examples should work on any system supporting Rust. Chapter 5, Creating a Client-Side WebAssembly App Using Yew, and Chapter 6, Creating a WebAssembly Game Using Quicksilver, require a web browser that supports WebAssembly, such as Chrome or Firefox. Chapter 6, Creating a WebAssembly Game Using Quicksilver, and Chapter 7, Creating a Desktop Two-Dimensional Game Using ggez, require support for OpenGL. Chapter 10, Creating a Linux Kernel Module, works only on Linux Mint.

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Conventions used

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A block of code is set as follows:

{
for pos in pos..5 {
print!("{}", digits[pos] as u8 as char);
}

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curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/datafile.txt

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