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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from Rust Standard Library Cookbook Over 75 recipes to leverage the power of Rust

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788623926

Length 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Rust

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Jan Hohenheim

Daniel Durante

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

Preface

1. Learning the Basics

2. Working with Collections FREE CHAPTER

3. Handling Files and the Filesystem

4. Serialization

5. Advanced Data Structures

6. Handling Errors

7. Parallelism and Rayon

8. Working with Futures

9. Networking

10. Using Experimental Nightly Features

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Index

Working with JSON

Most Web APIs and many native APIs speak JSON nowadays. It should be your format of choice when designing data meant for consumption by other programs, as it is lightweight, simple, easy to use and understand, and has excellent library support across programming languages, most notably JavaScript, of course.

Getting ready

JSON was created at a time when most web communication was done by sending XML over browser plugins such as Java or Flash. This was cumbersome and made the exchanged information quite bloated. Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSLint and author of the famous JavaScript: The Good Parts, decided in the early 2000s that it was time for a lightweight format that was easily integrated with JavaScript. He oriented himself on a small subset of JavaScript, namely the way it defined objects, and extended it a little bit to form the JavaScript Object Notation or JSON. Yes, you've read that right; JSON is not a subset of JavaScript, as it accepts things that JavaScript...

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Authors (2)

Jan Hohenheim

Jan Hohenheim

Jan Hohenheim is a senior software engineer and an active contributor to, and advocator of, the open source community. Over the years, he has acquired a deep understanding of systems programming through languages such as C++ and Rust by modernizing and refactoring big and complex codebases. His passions include all things AI and Blockchain. In his free time, he researches innovative approaches to bringing biology and technology closer together, which has led him to develop his own Machine Learning framework. You can follow his projects on GitHub. His username is jnferner.

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Daniel Durante

Daniel Durante

Daniel Durante has nearly a decade of experience in creating Node.js applications with Sequelize. He is currently working on setting up applications and infrastructures for blockchain and options trading analysis. He has been working with Genesis Volatility for the last three years, and currently works as a chief technical officer.

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