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The Rust Programming Handbook
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The Rust Programming Handbook

by Francesco Ciulla
December 2025
Beginner
768 pages
15h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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5

Composite Types in Rust and the Module System

Welcome to Chapter 5! Having explored Rust’s powerful ownership and borrowing system in the previous chapter, we now turn our attention to how Rust helps us structure and organize our data. Primitive types such as integers and Booleans are useful, but real-world applications often require grouping multiple values into a single, meaningful unit.

This is where Rust’s composite types come into play. They provide a robust way to manage more complex data, forming the building blocks for sophisticated applications.

In this chapter, we’ll dive deep into Rust’s primary composite types. We will cover the following topics:

  • Structs: How to define custom types to group related data fields, and how to add ...
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