Paperback, 552 pages
English language
Published Aug. 6, 2019 by No Starch Press.
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:
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:
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.
Sinceramente la mejor introducción a este lenguaje de programación. Me lo leí de principio a fin en mi afán de aprender y sí me dejó con una vista panorámica de lo que se podía hacer y cómo se hacía que me sirvió para comenzar.
An excellent book that introduces the Rust programming language and why its features can make it a compelling systems level programming language. The book assumes the reader has some programming experience, so it doesn't go into basic programming concepts, but instead shows how Rust handles some standard programming tasks in a safer (and maybe better) way than other systems programming languages.
Rust's explicit use of ownership and keeping track of lifetimes enable the language to detect and alert programmers at compile time about issues with their code that would lead to memory access problems that are a major source of bugs in programs. Rust does not eliminate all bugs, but getting rid of memory access related bugs would be good for programming in general.
After covering those essential aspects of the language, the book then goes into some details about the ecosystem around Rust: separating code into libraries, producing test …
An excellent book that introduces the Rust programming language and why its features can make it a compelling systems level programming language. The book assumes the reader has some programming experience, so it doesn't go into basic programming concepts, but instead shows how Rust handles some standard programming tasks in a safer (and maybe better) way than other systems programming languages.
Rust's explicit use of ownership and keeping track of lifetimes enable the language to detect and alert programmers at compile time about issues with their code that would lead to memory access problems that are a major source of bugs in programs. Rust does not eliminate all bugs, but getting rid of memory access related bugs would be good for programming in general.
After covering those essential aspects of the language, the book then goes into some details about the ecosystem around Rust: separating code into libraries, producing test cases and documentation and adding dependencies and external libraries. The book also goes into some more advanced language features that can support object-oriented programming and use 'unsafe' features, where the programmer, instead of the language, has to take some responsibility to ensure the code is safe to use.
By the end of the book, you should have a good understanding of the language features and ready to produce code. The book also gives some pointers for those looking to use the more advance language features in their coding.
I loved reading this book! It is so well written, whenever I had a question of the type "but doesn't that mean that X can also be seen as a Y?" the next paragraph would go exactly into why that is or isn't the case.
I wanted to learn Rust for a long time now but never could find the energy to stare at more screens after hours; having the paper version of this book available was a godsend for me, as it allowed me to do really focused reading without hurting my eyes.
Despite it being an "infodump" style book without much "now do this exercise, then this", after reading this book I felt well prepared to read and write intermediate complexity Rust code, and set off doing so. :)
Super complete book, opposite to other languages, you actually need to sit down and understand concepts. Rust is a language that introduces a lot of novel ideas and thus it requires some work from the engineer. This book gives you a nice toolset (I don't know if it will be enough in my journey), but I'm very happy with it.
