Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

Rust is a new systems programming language that combines the performance and low-level control of C and C++ with memory safety and thread safety. Rust’s modern, flexible types ensure your program is free of null pointer dereferences, double frees, dangling pointers, and similar bugs, all at compile time, without runtime overhead. In multi-threaded code, Rust catches data races at compile time, making concurrency much easier to use.

Written by two experienced systems programmers, this book explains how Rust manages to bridge the gap between performance and safety, and how you can take advantage of it. Topics include:

• How Rust represents values in memory (with diagrams)
• Complete explanations of ownership, moves, borrows, and lifetimes
• Cargo, rustdoc, unit tests, and how to publish your code on crates.io, Rust’s public package repository
• High-level features like generic code, closures, collections, and iterators that make Rust productive and flexible
• Concurrency in Rust: threads, mutexes, channels, and atomics, all much safer to use than in C or C++
• Unsafe code, and how to preserve the integrity of ordinary code that uses it
• Extended examples illustrating how pieces of the language fit together

• The Rust Programming Language
• The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook
• Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
• Concurrency in Go: Tools and Techniques for Developers
• BPF Performance Tools (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
• Go Programming Language, The (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
• Hands-On Concurrency with Rust: Confidently build memory-safe, parallel, and efficient software in Rust
• Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Rust: Learn programming techniques to build effective, maintainable, and readable code in Rust 2018
• The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018)
• Programming WebAssembly with Rust: Unified Development for Web, Mobile, and Embedded Applications