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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)

Cross-compiling Rust

Surprisingly, one of the more challenging aspects of implementing low-level projects is cross-compilation. Thanks to its LLVM underpinnings, rustc comes with a lot of toolchains for different CPU architectures. However, cross-compiling an application means that its (native) dependencies have to be available for this CPU architecture as well. This is challenging for small projects since it requires lots of management for versions across architectures and grows more and more complex with every added requirement. This is why there have been several tools that relate to this issue. In this recipe, we will explore at a few tools and learn how to use them.

Getting ready

This recipe is highly platform-specific...