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Mastering Rust. - Second Edition

You're reading from  Mastering Rust. - Second Edition

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

Design goals of WebAssembly

WebAssembly's design is the result of a joint collaboration between major browser vendors. Together, they aim to shape its design with the following goals in mind:

  • Be as safe and universal as JavaScript: The web platform is an unsafe environment and having untrusted code run is detrimental to the safety of users on the web.
  • Run as quickly as native code: Because the language is quite compact, WebAssembly can be loaded faster than JavaScript code and can be interpreted five times faster than JavaScript.
  • Provide consistent, predictable performance: Being statically typed, and with very minimal analysis happening at runtime, WebAssembly is able to provide consistent performance on the web, whereas JavaScript falls short because of its dynamic nature.
  • Allow code reuse between web and native: A lot of existing code bases in C/C++, Rust, and other languages...
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