What to read after Rust Programming Language Tutorial?

This is an extensive and beginner-friendly Rust tutorial prepared by our system programming team here at Apriorit. Whether you're a Rust aficionado or only starting your Rust journey, this e-book undoubtedly will prove useful to you.

Key Highlights

⦁ Discover the main features of the Rust language

⦁ Learn to develop safer and faster software using Rust

⦁ Learn to establish efficient C bindings

⦁ Get detailed explanations of differences between Rust and C++

Book Description

Rust is a c-like systems programming language that provides many advantages over its predecessors. This is why this low-level language has already become so popular in the development community. 

This book covers the main features of Rust, like zero-cost abstractions, move semantics, trait-based generics, pattern matching, type inference, and minimal runtime. It also explains how the Rust programming language can ensure memory safety and avoid data races in threads. In addition, Rust provides a great opportunity to use wide range of libraries and bind with other languages.

The author added a detailed chart comparing feature set of Rust to C++, so you can better understand all the advantages and disadvantages of Rust.

This tutorial will be useful for developers who only starts learning Rust, as well as for those who want to improve their knowledge on Rust features.

What you will learn

⦁ Discover Rust features that make programming faster and secure

⦁ Guarantee memory safety using Rust

⦁ Benefit from zero-cost abstraction mechanisms

⦁ Avoid data races and a garbage collector 

⦁ Get rid of use-after-free, double-free bugs, dangling pointers

⦁ Reduce code duplication 

⦁ Use existing libraries written in C and other languages

⦁ Understand the main difference between Rust and C++

About the Author

Alexey Lozovsky is a Software Designer at Apriorit.Inc. Apriorit Inc. is a software development service provider headquartered in the Dover, DE, US, with several development centers in Eastern Europe. With over 350 professionals, it brings high-quality services on software consulting, research, and development to software

vendors and IT companies worldwide. 

Apriorit’s main specialties are cybersecurity and data management projects, where system programming, driver and kernel level development, research and reversing matter. The company has an independent web platform development department focusing on building cloud platforms for business.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Summary of Features

Rust Language Features

Zero-Cost Abstractions

Move Semantics

Guaranteed Memory Safety

Ownership

Borrowing

Mutability and Aliasing

Option Types instead of Null Pointers

No Uninitialized Variables

Threads without Data Races

Passing Messages with Channels

Safe State Sharing with Locks

Trait-Based Generics

Traits Define Type Interfaces

Traits Implement Polymorphism

Traits May be Implemented Automatically

Pattern Matching

Type Inference

Minimal Runtime

Efficient C Bindings

Calling C from Rust

The Libc Crate and Unsafe Blocks

Beyond Primitive Types

Calling Rust from C

Rust vs. C++ Comparison