This is the code repository for Learning Rust, published by Packt.

A comprehensive guide to writing Rust applications

Rust is a highly concurrent and high performance language that focuses on safety and speed, memory management, and writing clean code. It also guarantees thread safety, and its aim is to improve the performance of existing applications. Its potential is shown by the fact that it has been backed by Mozilla to solve the critical problem of concurrency.

This book covers the following exciting features:

• Set up Rust for Windows, Linux, and OS X
• Write effective code using Rust
• Expand your Rust applications using libraries
• Interface existing non-Rust libraries with your Rust applications
• Use the standard library within your applications
• Understand memory management within Rust and speed efficiency when passing variables
• Create more complex data types
• Study concurrency in Rust with multi-threaded applications and sync threading techniques to improve the performance of an application problem

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

fn main() 
{ 
   print_multiply(4, 5); 
}

Following is what you need for this book: The book is for absolute beginners to Rust, who want to build high performance, concurrent applications for their projects. It is suitable for developers who have a basic knowledge of programming and developers who are using the C#/C++ language to write their applications. No knowledge of Rust is expected.

Paul Johnson has been writing software since the early 1980s on machines ranging from the ZX81 and servers to his trusty Mac, and has used more languages than he can remember. He is a qualified scuba diver and college lecturer. Paul lives with his wife, kids, and pets, and listens to an inordinate amount of rock and metal on Primordial Radio. This is his third book for Packt.

Vesa Kaihlavirta has been programming since he was 5, beginning with C64 Basic. His main professional goal in life is to increase awareness about programming languages and software quality in all industries that use software. He's an Arch Linux Developer Fellow and has been working in the telecom and financial industry for over a decade. Vesa lives in Central Finland, in Jyväskylä. Vesa worked on the final editing phase of Learning Rust.