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Learning Rust

You're reading from Learning Rust A comprehensive guide to writing Rust applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785884306

Length 308 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Rust

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Vesa Kaihlavirta

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Title Page

Preface

1. Introducing and Installing Rust FREE CHAPTER

2. Variables

3. Input and Output

4. Conditions, Recursion, and Loops

5. Remember, Remember

6. Creating Your Own Rust Applications

7. Matching and Structures

8. The Rust Application Lifetime

9. Introducing Generics, Impl, and Traits

10. Creating Your Own Crate

11. Concurrency in Rust

12. Now It's Your Turn!

13. The Standard Library

14. Foreign Function Interfaces

Chapter 10. Creating Your Own Crate

Most languages allow for external libraries to be created. These typically contain commonly used pieces of code that are for general use. For example, libraries for deserializing JSON are fairly common, as are math libraries. Rust is no exception. It allows for the creation of libraries (known as crates). These crates can be kept to yourself or distributed however you see fit. The metadata about crates is stored on a public service, at https://crates.io/.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

How crates are created
How the directory structure is used
How crates are made up of modules
How to include your crate within your code
How scopes are used with your modules

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Authors (1)

Vesa Kaihlavirta

Vesa Kaihlavirta

Vesa Kaihlavirta has been programming since he was five, beginning with C64 Basic. His main professional goal in life is to increase awareness of programming languages and software quality in all industries that use software. He's an Arch Linux Developer Fellow, and has been working in the telecom and financial industry for a decade. Vesa lives in Jyvaskyla, central Finland.

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