Code Like a Pro in Rust - by Brenden Matthews (Paperback)

About the Book

Get ready to code like a pro in Rust! This hands-on guide dives deep into memory management, asynchronous programming, and Rust design patterns and explores essential productivity techniques like testing, tooling, and project management.
Code Like A Pro in Rust is a fast-track guide to building and delivering professional quality software in Rust. You'll upgrade your basic knowledge of Rust with conventions, best practices, and veteran's secrets that are normally only learned through years of experience. Skip the fluff and get right to the heart of this powerful modern language, including Rust's support for asynchronous programming and integrating Rust with codebases written in other languages.

Book Synopsis

Get ready to code like a pro in Rust with insider techniques used by Rust veterans!

Code Like a Pro in Rust dives deep into memory management, asynchronous programming, and the core Rust skills that make you a Rust pro! Plus, you'll find essential productivity techniques for Rust testing, tooling, and project management. You'll soon be writing high-quality code that needs way less maintenance overhead.

In Code Like A Pro in Rust, you will learn:

• Essential Rust tooling
• Core Rust data structures
• Memory management
• Testing in Rust
• Asynchronous programming for Rust
• Optimized Rust
• Rust project management

Code Like A Pro in Rust is a fast-track guide to building and delivering professional quality software in Rust. It skips the fluff and gets right to the heart of this powerful modern language. You'll learn how to sidestep common Rust pitfalls and navigate quirks you might never have seen before--even if you've been programming for many years! Plus, discover timeless strategies for navigating the evolving Rust ecosystem and ensure your skills can easily adapt to future changes.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

Rust is famous for its safety, performance, and security, but it takes pro skills to make this powerful language shine. This book gets you up to speed fast, so you'll feel confident with low-level systems, web applications, asynchronous programming, concurrency, optimizations, and much more.

About the book

Code Like a Pro in Rust will make you a more productive Rust programmer. This example-rich book builds on your existing know-how by introducing Rust-specific design patterns, coding shortcuts, and veteran skills like asynchronous programming and integrating Rust with other languages. You'll also meet amazing Rust tools for testing, code analysis, and application lifecycle management. It's all the good stuff in one place!

What's inside

• Core Rust data structures
• Memory management
• Creating effective APIs
• Rust tooling, testing, and more

About the reader

Assumes you know Rust basics.

About the author

Brenden Matthews is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and a prolific open source contributor who has been using Rust since the early days of the language.

Table of Contents

1 Feelin' Rusty
PART 1
2 Project management with Cargo
3 Rust tooling
PART 2
4 Data structures
5 Working with memory
PART 3
6 Unit testing
7 Integration testing
PART 4
8 Async Rust
9 Building an HTTP REST API service
10 Building an HTTP REST API CLI
PART 5
11 Optimizations

From the Back Cover

Get ready to code like a pro in Rust! This hands-on guide dives deep into memory management, asynchronous programming, and Rust design patterns and explores essential productivity techniques like testing, tooling, and project management. In Code Like A Pro in Rust you will learn:

Essential Rust tooling Core Rust data structures Memory management Design patterns for Rust Testing in Rust Asynchronous programming for Rust Optimized Rust Rust project management

Code Like A Pro in Rust is a fast-track guide to building and delivering professional quality software in Rust. You'll upgrade your basic knowledge of Rust with conventions, best practices, and veteran's secrets that are normally only learned through years of experience. Skip the fluff and get right to the heart of this powerful modern language, including Rust's support for asynchronous programming and integrating Rust with codebases written in other languages. about the technology Programmers prize Rust for its safety, performance, and security. However, its strict syntax and tricky memory management can make it challenging to master. This practical guide shows you how to balance Rust's trade offs, lessen its cognitive load, and rapidly bring your productivity to a professional level. about the book Code Like a Pro in Rust shows you how to quickly create and ship Rust programs without wasting time on language quirks, compiler problems, and unexpected complexities. It builds on your existing Rust knowledge with design patterns and shortcuts direct from veteran Rust contributor Brenden Matthews. You'll learn to use important Rust tooling like rust-analyzer, Clippy, and Cargo, as well as best practices for unit testing and code optimization. By the time you're done, you'll be writing high quality code with less maintenance overhead.

About the Author

Brenden Matthews is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and a prolific open source contributor. He has been using Rust since the early days of the language, and has contributed to a number of Rust tools and OS projects.