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Published inApr 2024
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ISBN-139781837634644
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Akhil Sharma
Akhil Sharma
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Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma is a Software Engineer and an entrepreneur. He is the CTO of Dominate, a SaaS product company, and the founder of Myrl Tech, a tech services company providing technology consulting to some of the top enterprise companies in the world such as HP, 3M, Honda, Bose, and Adobe. He has 12+ years of industry experience and a solid understanding of building digital products. He is adept at multiple programming languages such as Golang, Rust, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript. He has mentored hundreds of engineers offline and discovered that they knew the programming language and the concepts around it but were unable to use them in real-world applications. He aims to close this gap by teaching how to apply the concepts practically and build projects in real time.
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In this chapter, we explored why Rust stands out as one of the most favored programming languages, particularly due to its exceptional speed and performance. Moreover, its distinctive attributes, such as type safety, AOT compilation, zero-cost abstractions, and freedom from garbage collection, contribute to its popularity. Following this, we’ve delved into crucial Rust concepts that lay the foundation for upcoming chapters. These concepts encompass variables, data types, tuples, arrays, slices, control flow, functions, and vectors, all of which will be instrumental in our continued learning journey.

We also covered advanced concepts such as hashmaps, ownership and borrowing, crates, modules, and cargo, all of which help us work with projects.

This was a quick, whirlwind tour of the most important and the most commonly used Rust features that we will be using and reusing throughout the rest of this book, hence why it was important to get this out of the way. However...

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837634644

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Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma is a Software Engineer and an entrepreneur. He is the CTO of Dominate, a SaaS product company, and the founder of Myrl Tech, a tech services company providing technology consulting to some of the top enterprise companies in the world such as HP, 3M, Honda, Bose, and Adobe. He has 12+ years of industry experience and a solid understanding of building digital products. He is adept at multiple programming languages such as Golang, Rust, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript. He has mentored hundreds of engineers offline and discovered that they knew the programming language and the concepts around it but were unable to use them in real-world applications. He aims to close this gap by teaching how to apply the concepts practically and build projects in real time.
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