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Mastering Rust - Second Edition

By : Rahul Sharma, Vesa Kaihlavirta
Book Image

Mastering Rust - Second Edition

By: Rahul Sharma, Vesa Kaihlavirta

Overview of this book

Rust is an empowering language that provides a rare combination of safety, speed, and zero-cost abstractions. Mastering Rust – Second Edition is filled with clear and simple explanations of the language features along with real-world examples, showing you how you can build robust, scalable, and reliable programs. This second edition of the book improves upon the previous one and touches on all aspects that make Rust a great language. We have included the features from latest Rust 2018 edition such as the new module system, the smarter compiler, helpful error messages, and the stable procedural macros. You’ll learn how Rust can be used for systems programming, network programming, and even on the web. You’ll also learn techniques such as writing memory-safe code, building idiomatic Rust libraries, writing efficient asynchronous networking code, and advanced macros. The book contains a mix of theory and hands-on tasks so you acquire the skills as well as the knowledge, and it also provides exercises to hammer the concepts in. After reading this book, you will be able to implement Rust for your enterprise projects, write better tests and documentation, design for performance, and write idiomatic Rust code.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

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SQLite is a very lightweight embedded database. It does not require a special database management system for you to be able to use it. Databases created by SQLite are represented as files or as in memory database, and you don't need to connect to an external remote endpoint or a local socket connection to use a database. It serves a different target audience than traditional client-server database engines such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, and is the go-to solution for use cases where an application needs to store data locally but in a secure and efficiently retrievable manner. The Android platform is a heavy user of SQLite and allows mobile applications to store preferences or configurations for users within an application. It is also used by many desktop applications that need to store any kind of state with durability guarantees.

The Rust community provides us with a...