Develop high-quality, fast, and portable applications by leveraging the power of Rust's Standard library.
Practical recipes that will help you work with the Standard library to boost your productivity as a Rust developer.
Learn about most relevant external crates to be used along with the Standard library.
Description
Mozilla’s Rust is gaining much attention with amazing features and a powerful library. This book will take you through varied recipes to teach you how to leverage the Standard library to implement efficient solutions.
The book begins with a brief look at the basic modules of the Standard library and collections. From here, the recipes will cover packages that support file/directory handling and interaction through parsing. You will learn about packages related to advanced data structures, error handling, and networking. You will also learn to work with futures and experimental nightly features. The book also covers the most relevant external crates in Rust.
By the end of the book, you will be proficient at using the Rust Standard library.
What you will learn
How to use the basic modules of the library: strings, command line access, and more.
Implement collections and folding of collections using vectors, Deque, linked lists, and more.
Handle various file types, compressing, and decompressing data.
Search for files with glob patterns.
Implement parsing through various formats such as CSV, TOML, and JSON.
Utilize drop trait, the Rust version of destructor.
Jan Hohenheim is a senior software engineer and an active contributor to, and advocator of, the open source community. Over the years, he has acquired a deep understanding of systems programming through languages such as C++ and Rust by modernizing and refactoring big and complex codebases. His passions include all things AI and Blockchain. In his free time, he researches innovative approaches to bringing biology and technology closer together, which has led him to develop his own Machine Learning framework. You can follow his projects on GitHub. His username is jnferner.
Daniel Durante has nearly a decade of experience in creating Node.js applications with Sequelize. He is currently working on setting up applications and infrastructures for blockchain and options trading analysis. He has been working with Genesis Volatility for the last three years, and currently works as a chief technical officer.
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