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Rust Essentials

You're reading from Rust Essentials A quick guide to writing fast, safe, and concurrent systems and applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788390019

Length 264 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Rust

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Ivo Balbaert

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

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Preface

1. Starting with Rust FREE CHAPTER

2. Using Variables and Types

3. Using Functions and Control Structures

4. Structuring Data and Matching Patterns

5. Higher Order Functions and Error-Handling

6. Using Traits and OOP in Rust

7. Ensuring Memory Safety and Pointers

8. Organizing Code and Macros

9. Concurrency - Coding for Multicore Execution

10. Programming at the Boundaries

11. Exploring the Standard Library

12. The Ecosystem of Crates

Chapter 8. Organizing Code and Macros

This chapter starts with discussing the large-scale code-organizing structures in Rust, namely modules and crates. ;After working through the material, you'll understand the structure of Rust projects, and be able to build a structured app as well. More specifically, we look at the following topics:

Building crates
Defining a module
Visibility of items
Importing modules and file hierarchy
Importing external crates
Exporting a public interface
Adding external crates to a project
Working with random numbers

We will touch upon how to build macros in order to generate code and save time and effort, particularly in these topics:

Why macros?
Developing macros
Using macros from crates
Some other built-in macros

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Authors (1)

Ivo Balbaert

Ivo Balbaert

Ivo Balbaert is a lecturer in web programming and databases at CVO Antwerpen, a community college in Belgium. He received a PhD in applied physics from the University of Antwerp in 1986. He worked for 20 years in the software industry as a developer and consultant in several companies, and for 10 years as project manager at the University Hospital of Antwerp. From 2000 onwards, he switched to partly teaching and partly developing software (at KHM Mechelen, CVO Antwerpen). He also wrote an introductory book in Dutch about developing in Ruby and Rails, Programmeren met Ruby en Rails, published by Van Duuren Media. In 2012, he authored a book on the Go programming language, The Way to Go, published by iUniverse. He has written a number of introductory books for new programming languages, notably Dart, Julia, Rust, and Red, all published by Packt.

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