January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
8h 8m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Rust
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Rust in 2018
How old is Rust? It started off in 2006 as a side project of Graydon Hoare, an engineer at Mozilla, and was later (in 2009) adopted by the company. Fast forward to less than a decade later to May 15, 2015, and the Rust team announced a stable version 1.0!
During its journey, there have been many features that have been added and removed again (for example, a garbage collector, classes, and interfaces) to help it become the fast and safe language that it is today.
Before getting deeper into borrowing and ownership, mutability, concurrency, safety, and so on in Rust, we would like to recap some major concepts in Rust and why they change architectural patterns significantly.