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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)

Integrating Rust with Other Languages

In today's application landscape, integration is key. Whether you are slowly modernizing a legacy service or starting from scratch with using a new language, programs rarely run in isolation nowadays. Rust is still an exotic technology for many companies and—unfortunately—is usually not considered in the typical SDK. This is why Rust made a point of playing nicely with others, which is why the community can (and will) supply a large number of drivers, service integrations, and so on, by wrapping other (native) libraries.

As developers, we rarely have the luxury of starting completely from scratch (greenfield projects), so in this chapter, we will cover the various ways the Rust language integrates with other languages and technologies. We'll focus on the most popular and useful integrations at the time of writing,...