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Hands-On Functional Programming in Rust

You're reading from Hands-On Functional Programming in Rust Build modular and reactive applications with functional programming techniques in Rust 2018

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788839358

Length 249 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Rust

Concepts

Functional Programming

Author (1):

Andrew Johnson

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

Preface

1. Functional Programming – a Comparison FREE CHAPTER

2. Functional Control Flow

3. Functional Data Structures

4. Generics and Polymorphism

5. Code Organization and Application Architecture

6. Mutability, Ownership, and Pure Functions

7. Design Patterns

8. Implementing Concurrency

9. Performance, Debugging, and Metaprogramming

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Index

Recognizing anti-patterns of ownership

Consider the following situation.

Congratulations, you have inherited legacy code. A previous team responsible for developing privileged access modules for elevators has been moved to a different project. They successfully developed code libraries to interface with a range of microcontrollers. However, while developing the access logic in Rust, they found object ownership to be very complicated and were unable to develop software that was compatible with Rust.

Your task in this chapter will be to analyze their code, look for possible solutions, then create a library to support privileged access for your elevators. To clarify, privileged access refers to override codes and keys made available to emergency services such as police, firemen, and so on.

Inspecting the microcontroller drivers

The microcontroller drivers are written in other languages and exposed to Rust through the foreign function interface (FFI) feature. An FFI is a way of connecting Rust code...

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Authors (1)

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson is a software developer who has worn many hats. Professionally, he has worked on projects written in C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Haskell, OCaml, and now Rust. Most notably, he has worked as an early employee at Topsy Labs (acquired by Apple) and FiscalNote (growing rapidly). Academically, his interests are focused on the intersection between formal language processing (such as programming languages) and existing natural language programming techniques.

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