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Code Like a Pro in Rust
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Code Like a Pro in Rust

by Brenden Matthews
March 2024
Intermediate to advanced
264 pages
7h 8m
English
Manning Publications

Overview

Get ready to code like a pro in Rust with insider techniques used by Rust veterans!

Code Like a Pro in Rust dives deep into memory management, asynchronous programming, and the core Rust skills that make you a Rust pro! Plus, you’ll find essential productivity techniques for Rust testing, tooling, and project management. You’ll soon be writing high-quality code that needs way less maintenance overhead.

In Code Like A Pro in Rust, you will learn:

  • Essential Rust tooling
  • Core Rust data structures
  • Memory management
  • Testing in Rust
  • Asynchronous programming for Rust
  • Optimized Rust
  • Rust project management

Code Like A Pro in Rust is a fast-track guide to building and delivering professional quality software in Rust. It skips the fluff and gets right to the heart of this powerful modern language. You’ll learn how to sidestep common Rust pitfalls and navigate quirks you might never have seen before—even if you’ve been programming for many years! Plus, discover timeless strategies for navigating the evolving Rust ecosystem and ensure your skills can easily adapt to future changes.

About the Technology
Rust is famous for its safety, performance, and security, but it takes pro skills to make this powerful language shine. This book gets you up to speed fast, so you’ll feel confident with low-level systems, web applications, asynchronous programming, concurrency, optimizations, and much more.

About the Book
Code Like a Pro in Rust will make you a more productive Rust programmer. This example-rich book builds on your existing know-how by introducing Rust-specific design patterns, coding shortcuts, and veteran skills like asynchronous programming and integrating Rust with other languages. You’ll also meet amazing Rust tools for testing, code analysis, and application lifecycle management. It’s all the good stuff in one place!

What's Inside
  • Core Rust data structures
  • Memory management
  • Creating effective APIs
  • Rust tooling, testing, and more


About the Reader
Assumes you know Rust basics.

About the Author
Brenden Matthews is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and a prolific open source contributor who has been using Rust since the early days of the language.

Quotes
There’s something for every Rust developer in here. Full of tips.
- Tim McNamara, Founder of Accelerant.dev, Author of Rust in Action

Wastes no time jumping headfirst into Rust development. It’s a great resource to get up to speed in Rust quickly.
- Patrick Walton, Meta

With this book, you will become a Rust pro.
- Jaume López Fundació, Institut Guttmann

Hands-on, practical, and understandable.
- Satej Kumar Sahu, Boeing

For all aspiring Rustaceans.
- Simon Tschoeke, German Edge Cloud

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