You're reading from Rust for C++ Developers Leverage your C++ expertise to write safer and faster systems code in Rust

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2026

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781836206514

Length 318 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Rust

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Dan Olson

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

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1. Part 1: Understanding Rust Basics

2. Chapter 1: Why Choose Rust? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Working with Rust Syntax

4. Chapter 3: The Rust Safety Model

5. Chapter 4: Managing Rust Projects with Cargo

6. Part 2: Exploring the Rust Standard Library

7. Chapter 5: Data Structures

8. Chapter 6: Reading and Writing Files

9. Chapter 7: Understanding Iterators

10. Chapter 8: Object-Oriented Programming

11. Chapter 9: Working with C++ in Rust

12. Part 3: Moving into Advanced Rust

13. Chapter 10: Optimization in Rust

14. Chapter 11: Multithreading in Rust

15. Chapter 12: Metaprogramming with Macros

16. Chapter 13: Continuing with Rust

17. Chapter 15: Unlock Your Exclusive Benefits

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18. Index

Appendix: Setting Up The Development Environment

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Object-Oriented Programming

Object-oriented programming (OOP) has been a very popular paradigm in the programming community over the last few decades. Several popular languages either explicitly embrace the object-oriented paradigm or style themselves as "multi-paradigm" languages with some level of support for it.

Rust falls in the latter category, and in this chapter, we'll learn about Rust's unique take on object orientation, see how it contrasts with C++'s approach, and examine how it can be combined with Rust's functional influences.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics: