Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

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Systems programming provides the foundation for the world’s computation. Writing performance-sensitive code requires a programming language that puts programmers in control of how memory, processor time, and other system resources are used. The Rust systems programming language combines that control with a modern type system that catches broad classes of common mistakes, from memory management errors to data races between threads.

With this practical guide, experienced systems programmers will learn how to successfully bridge the gap between performance and safety using Rust. Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, and Leonora Tindall demonstrate how Rust’s features put programmers in control over memory consumption and processor use by combining predictable performance with memory safety and trustworthy concurrency.

You’ll learn:

Rust’s fundamental data types and the core concepts of ownership and borrowing How to write flexible, efficient code with traits and generics How to write fast, multithreaded code without data races Rust’s key power tools: closures, iterators, and asynchronous programming Collections, strings and text, input and output, macros, unsafe code, and foreign function interfaces

This revised, updated edition covers the Rust 2021 Edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O’Reilly Media
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 20, 2021
Edition ‏ : ‎ 2nd
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 735 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1492052590
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1492052593
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.5 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #56,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Functional Software Programming #5 in Parallel Computer Programming #47 in Software Development (Books)
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