Learning Rust

by Leo Tindall

Released August 2018

Publisher(s): Packt Publishing

ISBN: 9781788477918

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Video description

Learn to write fast, low-level code without fear in Rust

About This Video

Discover Rust’s powerful type system, which prevents data races and memory corruption
Build concurrent applications without fear
Take advantage of the large ecosystem of libraries available through Cargo

In Detail

Rust is a new systems programming language from Mozilla, created to facilitate the development of large, complex software projects. Its powerful type system and memory safety rules prevent all memory corruption bugs without compromising developer productivity.

In this course, you’ll begin by getting familiar with the basic syntax and concepts of Rust, from writing a Hello World program to defining functions and creating variables. Then you’ll see how to manage toolchains with Rust up and build your first command-line program.

Moving on, you’ll explore Rust’s type system to write better code and put it into practice in a simple markup language. You’ll learn to use Rust’s functional programming features to perform a physics simulation and use the Rayon crate to parallelize your computations. Finally, you’ll discover the best practices and test your code by building a simple crate with a tested, usable, well-documented API using Cargo and RustDoc.

By the end of the video, you’ll be comfortable building various solutions in Rust. You’ll be able to take advantage of Rust’s powerful type system and a rich ecosystem of libraries, or “crates”, available through the Cargo package manager.

Audience

The video is for developers who have basic knowledge of programming. The video will also appeal to developers who are using C/C++ language to write their applications. There is no knowledge of Rust language expected.