Chapter 1: Tools of the Trade – Rust Toolchains and Project Structures
Rust, as a modern systems programming language, has many inherent characteristics that make it easier to write safe, reliable, and performant code. Rust also has a compiler that enables a relatively fearless code refactoring experience as a project grows in size and complexity. But any programming language in itself is incomplete without the toolchains that support the software development life cycle. After all, where would software engineers be without their tools?
This chapter specifically discusses the Rust toolchain and its ecosystem, and techniques to structure code within Rust projects to write safe, testable, performant, documented, and maintainable code that is also ...
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