Practical System Programming For Rust Developers

Explore various Rust features, data structures, libraries, and toolchain to build modern systems software with the help of hands-on examples Key FeaturesLearn techniques to design and build system tools and utilities in RustExplore the different features of the Rust standard library for interacting with operating systemsGain an in-depth understanding of the Rust programming language by writing low-level softwareBook Description Modern programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Java have become increasingly accepted for application-level programming, but for systems programming, C and C++ are predominantly used due to the need for low-level control of system resources. Rust promises the best of both worlds: the type safety of Java, and the speed and expressiveness of C++, while also including memory safety without a garbage collector. This book is a comprehensive introduction if you’re new to Rust and systems programming and are looking to build reliable and efficient systems software without C or C++. The book takes a unique approach by starting each topic with Linux kernel concepts and APIs relevant to that topic. You’ll also explore how system resources can be controlled from Rust. As you progress, you’ll delve into advanced topics. You’ll cover network programming, focusing on aspects such as working with low-level network primitives and protocols in Rust, before going on to learn how to use and compile Rust with WebAssembly. Later chapters will take you through practical code examples and projects to help you build on your knowledge. By the end of this Rust programming book, you will be equipped with practical skills to write systems software tools, libraries, and utilities in Rust. What you will learnGain a solid understanding of how system resources are managedUse Rust confidently to control and operate a Linux or Unix systemUnderstand how to write a host of practical systems software tools and utilitiesDelve into memory management with the memory layout of Rust programsDiscover the capabilities and features of the Rust Standard LibraryExplore external crates to improve productivity for future Rust programming projectsWho this book is for This book is for developers with basic knowledge of Rust but little to no knowledge or experience of systems programming. System programmers who want to consider Rust as an alternative to C or C++ will also find this book useful.

Building Tomorrow's Systems Today the Rust Way KEY FEATURES ● Learn how to use Rust libraries effectively for various applications and projects. ● Go from basics to advanced system-building skills for stronger and reliable outcomes. ● Secure your Rust applications confidently with expert tips for enhanced protection. DESCRIPTION This book is your guide to mastering Rust programming, equipping you with essential skills and insights for efficient system programming. It starts by introducing Rust's significance in the system programming domain and highlighting its advantages over traditional languages like C/C++. You'll then embark on a practical journey, setting up Rust on various platforms and configuring the development environment. From writing your first "Hello, World!" program to harness the power of Rust's package manager, Cargo, the book ensures a smooth initiation into the language. Delving deeper, the book covers foundational concepts, including variables, data types, control flow, functions, closures, and crucial memory management aspects like ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes. Special attention is given to Rust's strict memory safety guarantees, guiding you in writing secure code with the assistance of the borrow checker. The book extends its reach to Rust collections, error-handling techniques, and the complexities of concurrency management. From threads and synchronization primitives like Mutex and RwLock to asynchronous programming with async/await and the Tokio library, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of Rust's capabilities. This book covers it all. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN ● Learn how to set up the Rust environment effortlessly, ensuring a streamlined development process. ● Explore advanced concepts in Rust, including traits, generics, and various collection types, expanding your programming expertise. ● Master effective error-handling techniques, empowering you to create custom error types for enhanced code robustness. ● Tackle the complexities of memory management, smart pointers, and delve into the complexities of concurrency in Rust. ● Gain hands-on experience by building command-line utilities, sharpening your practical skills in real-world scenarios. ● Master the use of iterators and closures, ensuring code reliability through comprehensive unit testing practices. WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR? This book is tailored for aspiring programmers, software developers, system engineers, and computer scientists looking to dive into system programming with Rust. It caters to a broad spectrum of individuals and professionals interested in leveraging Rust's power to build robust and efficient applications. While no prior experience with Rust is necessary, a basic understanding of programming concepts and familiarity with at least one programming language would be beneficial. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Systems Programming with Rust 2. Basics of Rust 3. Traits and Generics 4. Rust Built-In Data Structures 5. Error Handling and Recovery 6. Memory Management and Pointers 7. Managing Concurrency 8. Command Line Programs 9. Working with Devices I/O in Rust 10. Iterators and Closures 11. Unit Testing in Rust 12. Network Programming 13. Unsafe Coding in Rust 14. Asynchronous Programming 15. Web Assembly with Rust Index

Create bulletproof, high-performance web apps and servers with Rust. In Rust Web Development you will learn: Handling the borrow checker in an asynchronous environment Learning the ingredients of an asynchronous Rust stack Creating web APIs and using JSON in Rust Graceful error handling Testing, tracing, logging, and debugging Deploying Rust applications Efficient database access Rust Web Development is a pragmatic, hands-on guide to creating server-based web applications with Rust. If you’ve designed web servers using Java, NodeJS, or PHP, you’ll instantly fall in love with the performance and development experience Rust delivers. Hit the ground running! Author Bastian Gruber’s sage advice makes it easy to start tackling complex problems with Rust. You’ll learn how to work efficiently using pure Rust, along with important Rust libraries such as tokio for async runtimes, warp for web servers and APIs, and reqwest to run external HTTP requests. About the technology If you’re sick of cookie-cutter web development tools that are slow, resource hungry, and unstable, Rust is the solution. Rust services deliver rock-solid safety guarantees, an amazing developer experience, and even a compiler that automatically prevents common mistakes! About the book Rust Web Development, teaches you to build server-side web apps using Rust, along with important Rust libraries like tokio for async runtimes, warp for web servers and APIs, and reqwest to run external HTTP requests. The book is packed full of examples, code samples, and pro tips for setting up your projects and organizing your code. As you go, you’ll build a complete Q&A web service and iterate on your code chapter-by-chapter, just like a real development project. What's inside Handle the borrow checker in an asynchronous environment Build web APIs and handle JSON Compose a tech stack for asynchronous Rust development Handle errors gracefully Test, trace, log, and debug Deploy Rust applications to multiple environments About the reader This book is for web developers familiar with Java, Node, or Go, and the absolute basics of Rust. About the author Bastian Gruber was part of the official Rust Async Working Group, and founded the Rust and Tell Berlin MeetUp group. Table of Contents PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO RUST 1 Why Rust? 2 Laying the foundation PART 2 GETTING STARTED 3 Create your first route handler 4 Implement a RESTful API 5 Clean up your codebase 6 Logging, tracing, and debugging 7 Add a database to your application 8 Integrate third-party APIs PART 3 BRING IT INTO PRODUCTION 9 Add authentication and authorization 10 Deploy your application 11 Testing your Rust application

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

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.

"This well-written book will help you make the most of what Rust has to offer." - Ramnivas Laddad, author of AspectJ in Action Rust in Action is a hands-on guide to systems programming with Rust. Written for inquisitive programmers, it presents real-world use cases that go far beyond syntax and structure. Summary Rust in Action introduces the Rust programming language by exploring numerous systems programming concepts and techniques. You'll be learning Rust by delving into how computers work under the hood. You'll find yourself playing with persistent storage, memory, networking and even tinkering with CPU instructions. The book takes you through using Rust to extend other applications and teaches you tricks to write blindingly fast code. You'll also discover parallel and concurrent programming. Filled to the brim with real-life use cases and scenarios, you'll go beyond the Rust syntax and see what Rust has to offer in real-world use cases. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Rust is the perfect language for systems programming. It delivers the low-level power of C along with rock-solid safety features that let you code fearlessly. Ideal for applications requiring concurrency, Rust programs are compact, readable, and blazingly fast. Best of all, Rust’s famously smart compiler helps you avoid even subtle coding errors. About the book Rust in Action is a hands-on guide to systems programming with Rust. Written for inquisitive programmers, it presents real-world use cases that go far beyond syntax and structure. You’ll explore Rust implementations for file manipulation, networking, and kernel-level programming and discover awesome techniques for parallelism and concurrency. Along the way, you’ll master Rust’s unique borrow checker model for memory management without a garbage collector. What's inside Elementary to advanced Rust programming Practical examples from systems programming Command-line, graphical and networked applications About the reader For intermediate programmers. No previous experience with Rust required. About the author Tim McNamara uses Rust to build data processing pipelines and generative art. He is an expert in natural language processing and data engineering. Table of Contents 1 Introducing Rust PART 1 RUST LANGUAGE DISTINCTIVES 2 Language foundations 3 Compound data types 4 Lifetimes, ownership, and borrowing PART 2 DEMYSTIFYING SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING 5 Data in depth 6 Memory 7 Files and storage 8 Networking 9 Time and timekeeping 10 Processes, threads, and containers 11 Kernel 12 Signals, interrupts, and exceptions

Rust is an exciting new programming language combining the power of C with memory safety, fearless concurrency, and productivity boosters - and what better way to learn than by making games. Each chapter in this book presents hands-on, practical projects ranging from "Hello, World" to building a full dungeon crawler game. With this book, you'll learn game development skills applicable to other engines, including Unity and Unreal. Rust is an exciting programming language combining the power of C with memory safety, fearless concurrency, and productivity boosters. With Rust, you have a shiny new playground where your game ideas can flourish. Each chapter in this book presents hands-on, practical projects that take you on a journey from "Hello, World" to building a full dungeon crawler game. Start by setting up Rust and getting comfortable with your development environment. Learn the language basics with practical examples as you make your own version of Flappy Bird. Discover what it takes to randomly generate dungeons and populate them with monsters as you build a complete dungeon crawl game. Run game systems concurrently for high-performance and fast game-play, while retaining the ability to debug your program. Unleash your creativity with magical items, tougher monsters, and intricate dungeon design. Add layered graphics and polish your game with style. What You Need: A computer running Windows 10, Linux, or Mac OS X.A text editor, such as Visual Studio Code.A video card and drivers capable of running OpenGL 3.2.

The official book on the Rust programming language, written by the Rust development team at the Mozilla Foundation, fully updated for Rust 2018. The Rust Programming Language is the official book on Rust: an open source systems programming language that helps you write faster, more reliable software. Rust offers control over low-level details (such as memory usage) in combination with high-level ergonomics, eliminating the hassle traditionally associated with low-level languages. The authors of The Rust Programming Language, members of the Rust Core Team, share their knowledge and experience to show you how to take full advantage of Rust's features--from installation to creating robust and scalable programs. You'll begin with basics like creating functions, choosing data types, and binding variables and then move on to more advanced concepts, such as: Ownership and borrowing, lifetimes, and traits Using Rust's memory safety guarantees to build fast, safe programs Testing, error handling, and effective refactoring Generics, smart pointers, multithreading, trait objects, and advanced pattern matching Using Cargo, Rust's built-in package manager, to build, test, and document your code and manage dependencies How best to use Rust's advanced compiler with compiler-led programming techniques You'll find plenty of code examples throughout the book, as well as three chapters dedicated to building complete projects to test your learning: a number guessing game, a Rust implementation of a command line tool, and a multithreaded server. New to this edition: An extended section on Rust macros, an expanded chapter on modules, and appendixes on Rust development tools and editions.