Rust Programming Cookbook

How to do it...

Implement an actor-based sensor data reader in just a few steps:

1. Create a new binary application using cargo new actors and open the directory in Visual Studio Code.
2. Include the required dependencies in the Cargo.toml configuration file:

[package]name = "actors"version = "0.1.0"authors = ["Claus Matzinger <[e-mail]>"]edition = "2018"[dependencies]actix = "^0.8"rand = "0.5"

3. Open src/main.rs to add the code before the main function. Let's start with the imports:

use actix::prelude::*;use std::thread;use std::time::Duration;use rand::prelude::*;

4. In order to create an actor system, we'll have to think about the application's structure. An actor can be thought of as a message receiver with a postbox where ...