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Rust Programming Cookbook

By : Claus Matzinger
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Rust Programming Cookbook

By: Claus Matzinger

Overview of this book

Rust 2018, Rust's first major milestone since version 1.0, brings more advancement in the Rust language. The Rust Programming Cookbook is a practical guide to help you overcome challenges when writing Rust code. This Rust book covers recipes for configuring Rust for different environments and architectural designs, and provides solutions to practical problems. It will also take you through Rust's core concepts, enabling you to create efficient, high-performance applications that use features such as zero-cost abstractions and improved memory management. As you progress, you'll delve into more advanced topics, including channels and actors, for building scalable, production-grade applications, and even get to grips with error handling, macros, and modularization to write maintainable code. You will then learn how to overcome common roadblocks when using Rust for systems programming, IoT, web development, and network programming. Finally, you'll discover what Rust 2018 has to offer for embedded programmers. By the end of the book, you'll have learned how to build fast and safe applications and services using Rust.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Uploading to crates.io

crates.io (https://crates.io) is Rust's public repository for community crates. This links dependencies together, enables discovery, and lets users search for packages. For crate maintainers, it offers usage statistics and a place to host a readme file. cargo makes it possible to publish crates quickly and easily, as well as to handle updates. Let's see how.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we are going to publish a crate with minimal functionality. If you already have source code to work on (that is, your own project), feel free to use it. If not, create a new library project using cargo new public-crate --lib and open it in VS Code:

Go to https://crates.io and log in to your account (using...