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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Rust
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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Rust

by Claus Matzinger
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
8h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Summary

Rust is a multi-paradigm language with exceptional concepts: the language emphasizes data and behavior separation with structures and traits, uses macros for metaprogramming, and leverages explicit ownership of memory to determine variable lifetimes. Knowing these lifetimes removes the need for runtime garbage collection and, at the same time, greatly facilitates concurrency by allowing mutable borrowing only in certain circumstances.

Consequently, threads and other asynchronous processes can change variables only when they have mutable ownership of them, something that is mostly enforced at compile time, but can also be done at runtime! Therefore, safe Rust is effectively free of data races.

Another strong point of the Rust ecosystem ...

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