The the Complete Rust Programming Reference Guide

Design and implement professional-level programs by leveraging modern data structures and algorithms in Rust

Key Features

Improve your productivity by writing more simple and easy code in Rust

Discover the functional and reactive implementations of traditional data structures

Delve into new domains of Rust, including WebAssembly, networking, and command-line tools

Book Description

Rust is a powerful language with a rare combination of safety, speed, and zero-cost abstractions. This Learning Path is filled with clear and simple explanations of its features along with real-world examples, demonstrating how you can build robust, scalable, and reliable programs.

You'll get started with an introduction to Rust data structures, algorithms, and essential language constructs. Next, you will understand how to store data using linked lists, arrays, stacks, and queues. You'll also learn to implement sorting and searching algorithms, such as Brute Force algorithms, Greedy algorithms, Dynamic Programming, and Backtracking. As you progress, you'll pick up on using Rust for systems programming, network programming, and the web. You'll then move on to discover a variety of techniques, right from writing memory-safe code, to building idiomatic Rust libraries, and even advanced macros.

By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to implement Rust for enterprise projects, writing better tests and documentation, designing for performance, and creating idiomatic Rust code.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:

Mastering Rust - Second Edition by Rahul Sharma and Vesa Kaihlavirta

Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Rust by Claus Matzinger

What you will learn

Design and implement complex data structures in Rust

Create and use well-tested and reusable components with Rust

Understand the basics of multithreaded programming and advanced algorithm design

Explore application profiling based on benchmarking and testing

Study and apply best practices and strategies in error handling

Create efficient web applications with the Actix-web framework

Use Diesel for type-safe database interactions in your web application

Who this book is for

If you are already familiar with an imperative language and now want to progress from being a beginner to an intermediate-level Rust programmer, this Learning Path is for you. Developers who are already familiar with Rust and want to delve deeper into the essential data structures and algorithms in Rust will also find this Learning Path useful.

Table of Contents

Getting Started with Rust

Managing Projects with Cargo

Tests, Documentation, and Benchmarks

Types, Generics, and Traits

Memory Management and Safety

Error Handling

Advanced Concepts

Concurrency

Metaprogramming with Macros

Unsafe Rust and Foreign Function Interfaces

Logging

Network Programming in Rust

Building Web Applications with Rust

Lists, Lists, and More Lists

Robust Trees

Exploring Maps and Sets

Collections in Rust

Algorithm Evaluation

Ordering Things

Finding Stuff

Random and Combinatorial

Algorithms of the Standard Library