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Rust Programming Cookbook

By : Claus Matzinger
Book Image

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)

Using Rust and Python

Python has become a staple language for many applications, from the web to data science. However, Python itself is an interpreted language and is famously quite slow—which is why it integrates well with much faster C code. Many well-liked libraries are implemented in C/C++ and Cython (https://cython.org/) in order to achieve the required performance (for example, numpy, pandas, keras, and PyTorch are largely native code). Since Rust produces native binaries as well, let's look at how we can write Rust modules for Python.

Getting ready

We will work on creating an SHA256 digest again and will use the same folder structure as we have in every recipe in this chapter. Create a python-rust directory...