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Mastering Rust. - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789346572
Pages 554 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Rahul Sharma Rahul Sharma
Profile icon Rahul Sharma

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Rust 2. Managing Projects with Cargo 3. Tests, Documentation, and Benchmarks 4. Types, Generics, and Traits 5. Memory Management and Safety 6. Error Handling 7. Advanced Concepts 8. Concurrency 9. Metaprogramming with Macros 10. Unsafe Rust and Foreign Function Interfaces 11. Logging 12. Network Programming in Rust 13. Building Web Applications with Rust 14. Interacting with Databases in Rust 15. Rust on the Web with WebAssembly 16. Building Desktop Applications with Rust 17. Debugging 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Web applications in Rust

"The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user."

C. A. R. Hoare

It's rare for a low-level language to enable developers to write web applications with it while providing thekind of high-level ergonomics that dynamic languages do. With Rust, it's quite the opposite. Developing web applications with Rust is a similar experience one might expect from dynamic languages such as Ruby or Python, due to its high-level abstractions.

Web applications developed in dynamic languages can only get you so far though. A lot of developers find to what, as their code base reaches about a 100,000 lines of code, they start seeing the brittle nature of dynamic languages. With every small change you make, you need to have tests in place to let you know what parts of the application are affected....

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