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Learn Rust

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What You’ll Learn

This book is structured to provide a comprehensive journey through Rust, starting from the fundamentals and progressing to advanced topics. Here’s a glimpse of what you can expect:

1. Getting Started: Setting up your Rust environment, understanding Cargo, and writing your first Rust program.
2. Core Concepts: Delving into Rust’s ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes to grasp the language’s unique approach to memory management.
3. Data Structures and Enums: Exploring Rust’s powerful type system, including structs, enums, and pattern matching.
4. Error Handling: Learning robust error handling strategies using Result and Option types.
5. Concurrency: Harnessing Rust’s concurrency primitives to write safe and efficient multi-threaded applications.
6. Modules and Crates: Organizing your code effectively using modules, crates, and workspaces.
7. Advanced Features: Generics, traits, lifetimes, and more to write flexible and reusable code.
8. Performance and Optimization: Profiling, benchmarking, and writing high-performance Rust code.
9. Ecosystem and Tools: Navigating Rust’s ecosystem with popular libraries, frameworks, and essential tools.

Why Rust?

Who Should Learn Rust?
What You’ll Learn
How to Use This Book
Embrace the Rustacean Spirit

Introduction to Rust

History and Evolution of Rust
Key Features and Philosophy
Comparison with Other Languages
Installing and Setting Up Rust
Your First Rust Program
Summary

Basics of Rust

Variables and Mutability
Data Types
Functions and Control Flow
Comments and Documentation
End of Chapter Exercises

Ownership and Borrowing

Ownership Model
References and Borrowing
Lifetime Annotations
Ownership in Function Parameters
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary

Data Structures and Pattern Matching

Arrays, Vectors, and Slices
Strings and String Slices
Tuples and Structs
Enums and Pattern Matching
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary

Error Handling

Result and Option Types
Unwrapping and Expecting
Error Propagation
Custom Error Types
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary

Traits and Generics

Defining and Implementing Traits
Generics and Type Parameters
Associated Types
Trait Bounds
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary

Modules and Crates

Modules and File Structure
Privacy and pub Keyword
Crates and Cargo
Dependency Management
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary

Concurrency

Threads and Message Passing
Shared State Concurrency
Asynchronous Programming
Futures and async/await
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary

Memory Management

Smart Pointers: Box, Rc, Arc
Interior Mutability and RefCell
Understanding Memory Safety
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary

Macros

Declarative Macros
Procedural Macros
Attribute Macros
Writing Custom Macros
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary

Advanced Concepts

Closures and Higher-Order Functions
Iterators and the Iterator Trait
Unsafe Rust and Raw Pointers
Foreign Function Interface (FFI)
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary

Testing and Debugging

Writing Unit Tests
Integration Testing
Debugging Tools
Benchmarking in Rust
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary

Building Applications

CLI Applications with clap
Web Applications with actix-web or Rocket
Desktop Applications with egui or druid
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary

Embedded and Systems Programming

Rust for Embedded Systems
Writing Safe and Efficient Code
Real-time Systems with Rust
End of Chapter Exercises

Performance and Optimization

Profiling and Benchmarking
Zero-Cost Abstractions
Writing Efficient Code
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary

Ecosystem and Tools

Popular Libraries and Frameworks
Using Rust in WebAssembly (Wasm)
Rust Toolchain: rustfmt, clippy, miri
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary

Project Development

Structuring Rust Projects
Best Practices for Large Codebases
Continuous Integration with Rust
End of Chapter Exercises
Summary