Code Like a Pro in Rust

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.

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

Chapter 1: Feelin’ Rusty

Part 1: Pro Rust

Chapter 2: Project management with Cargo

Chapter 3: Rust tooling

Part 2: Core data

Chapter 4: Data structures

Chapter 5: Working with memory

Part 3: Correctness

Chapter 6: Unit testing

Chapter 7: Integration testing

Part 4: Asynchronous Rust

Chapter 8: Async Rust

Chapter 9: Building an HTTP REST API service

Chapter 10: Building an HTTP REST API CLI

Part 5: Optimizations

Chapter 11: Optimizations

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.