This chapter was a short introduction to the basic networking functionality in Rust. We started with given functionality in std::net, and we wrote a few TCP and UDP servers using those. We then looked at some other utilities in the same namespace. At the end, we went over examples of a number of crates which are aimed at extending the standard library's functionality around networking. Bear in mind that it is always possible to just use the libc crate to write networking code, which is based on POSIX-compatible networking code with access to fine-grained control over sockets and network devices. The problem with this approach is that the code might be unsafe, breaking Rust's guarantee of safety. Another crate called nix aims to provide libc's functionality native Rust so that it preserves all the memory and type safety guarantees that the compiler provides...
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Abhishek Chanda studied computer science at IIEST Shibpur in India and electrical engineering at Rutgers University. He has been working on networking and distributed systems since 2008. Over his career, he has worked with large companies (like Microsoft and Dell) and small startups (Cloudscaling, DataSine) in India, US, and the UK. He is enthusiastic about open source software and has contributed to a number of projects like OpenStack, Nomad etc. He contributes to a number of open source projects. He came across Rust in 2015 and found it to be a perfect fit for writing highly performant systems.
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Abhishek Chanda studied computer science at IIEST Shibpur in India and electrical engineering at Rutgers University. He has been working on networking and distributed systems since 2008. Over his career, he has worked with large companies (like Microsoft and Dell) and small startups (Cloudscaling, DataSine) in India, US, and the UK. He is enthusiastic about open source software and has contributed to a number of projects like OpenStack, Nomad etc. He contributes to a number of open source projects. He came across Rust in 2015 and found it to be a perfect fit for writing highly performant systems.
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