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Rust for Blockchain Application Development

You're reading from  Rust for Blockchain Application Development

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837634644
Pages 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Akhil Sharma Akhil Sharma
Profile icon Akhil Sharma

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1:Blockchains and Rust
2. Chapter 1: Blockchains with Rust 3. Chapter 2: Rust – Necessary Concepts for Building Blockchains 4. Part 2: Building the Blockchain
5. Chapter 3: Building a Custom Blockchain 6. Chapter 4: Adding More Features to Our Custom Blockchain 7. Chapter 5: Finishing Up Our Custom Blockchain 8. Part 3: Building Apps
9. Chapter 6: Using Foundry to Build on Ethereum 10. Chapter 7: Exploring Solana by Building a dApp 11. Chapter 8: Exploring NEAR by Building a dApp 12. Part 4: Polkadot and Substrate
13. Chapter 9: Exploring Polkadot, Kusama, and Substrate 14. Chapter 10: Hands-On with Substrate 15. Part 5: The Future of Blockchains
16. Chapter 11: Future of Rust for Blockchains 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Rust community

Rust solves a lot of problems that are present with other programming languages, and we have already learned about the revolutionary features of Rust. Rust is quite disruptive. Recently, Windows rewrote the entire Kernel of Windows with just 180,000 lines of Rust code – that’s much less code to power the entire Windows Kernel. This just goes to show how robust Rust is as a technology and how disruptive it will be in the software, operating system, and web worlds.

Since this book is geared towards Web3, let’s talk about what the future looks like.

Even though Rust is highly effective and loved by a lot of programmers, the traction for Rust has been a bit on the lower side; that’s because it’s not a language like JavaScript or Python. While Java and Python are easy to pick up because of the lack of complex memory management or memory borrowing, Rust, on the other hand, has a need for complex memory management with a lot of features...

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