Programming with Rust

Donis Marshall has more than twenty years of experience in designing and building enterprise software with Microsoft technologies for leading companies in multiple industries. An endorsed trainer for Microsoft Global Learning Services, he has trained Microsoft developers and engineers for many years. His Microsoft Press books include Solid Code and Programming Microsoft Visual C#.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Rust 1Introduction 1Features 4Rust Terminology 6Tools 7Summary 8  Chapter 2: Getting Started 9Preliminaries 9Rust and Windows 10Installing Rust 10Advanced Rustup 11“Hello, World” 11Compile and Run 12Cargo 13Library 15Comments 17Published Crates 20Main Function 21Command-Line Arguments 22Summary 23  Chapter 3: Variables 25Terminology 25Variables 26Primitives 26Integer Types 27Overflow 28Notations 29Floating Point Types 30Floating Point Constants 30Infinity 31NaN 31Numeric Ranges 32Casting 33Boolean Types 34Char 34Pointers 35Operators 37Summary 40  Chapter 4: Strings 41Str 41String 42Length 43Extending a String 44Capacity 45Accessing a String Value 46String Characters 48Deref Coercion 48Formatted String 49Helpful Functions 49Summary 52  Chapter 5: Console 53Print 53Positional Arguments 54Variable Arguments 55Named Arguments 55Padding, Alignment, and Precision 56Base 58Developer Facing 59Write! Macro 60Display Trait 60Debug Trait 62Format! Macro 63Console Read and Write 63Summary 64  Chapter 6: Control Flow 65The if Expression 65The while Expression 68The for Expression 70The loop Expression 73The Iterator Trait 76Summary 78  Chapter 7: Collections 79Arrays 79Vectors 86HashMap 91Summary 95  Chapter 8: Ownership 97Stack and Heap Memory 98Shallow versus Deep Copy 98Car Analogy 99Move Semantics 99Borrow 101Copy Semantics 101Clone Trait 102Copy Trait 103Clone Trait 104Summary 105  Chapter 9: Lifetimes 107Introduction to Lifetimes 108Function Headers and Lifetimes 109Lifetime Annotation 111Lifetime Elision 112Complex Lifetimes 113Sharing a Lifetime 114Static Lifetimes 115Structs and Lifetimes 116Methods and Lifetimes 116Subtyping Lifetimes 118Anonymous Lifetimes 120Generics and Lifetimes 121Summary 121  Chapter 10: References 123Declaration 124Borrowing 124Dereferencing 125Comparing References 126Reference Notation 127Reference to Reference 128Mutability 129Limits to Multiple Borrowers 130Summary 131  Chapter 11: Functions 133Function Definition 133Parameters 134Function Return 136Const Functions 138Nested Functions 139Function Pointers 140Function Aliases 142Summary 143  Chapter 12: Error Handling 145Handling Error Handling 145The Result Enum 146The Option Enum 147Panics 148Unwrapping 154Match Pattern for Result and Option 156Map 158Rich Errors 160Custom Errors 161Summary 163  Chapter 13: Structures 165Alternate Initialization 167Move Semantics 169Mutability 170Methods 170Self 172Associated Functions 173Impl Blocks 174Operator Overloading 175Tuple Struct 179Summary 180  Chapter 14: Generics 181Generic Functions 182Bounds 186The where Clause 188Structs 190Associated Functions 194Enums 195Generic Traits 197Explicit Specialization 200Summary 205  Chapter 15: Patterns 207Let Statement 207Wildcards 208Complex Patterns 209Ownership 210Irrefutable 212Ranges 213Multiple Patterns 214Control Flow 215Structs 216Functions 219Match Expressions 220Match Guards 224Summary 227  Chapter 16: Closures 229“Hello, World” 229Closure Syntax 230Closed Over 231Closures as Function Arguments 233Closures as Function Return Values 234Implementation of Closures 235Matrix Example 242Summary 244  Chapter 17: Traits 245Trait Definition 245Default Functions 248Marker Trait 249Associated Functions 249Associated Types 251Extension Methods 253Fully Qualified Syntax 254Supertraits 257Static Dispatch 260Dynamic Dispatch 262Enums and Traits 263Summary 265  Chapter 18: Threads 1 267Synchronous Function Calls 268Threads 269The Thread Type 273Processor Time 274Builder 275Communicating Sequential Process 276Asynchronous Channel 277Synchronous Channel 279Rendezvous Channel 280The try Methods 281Store Example 286Summary 290  Chapter 19: Threads 2 291Mutex 291Nonscoped Mutex 294Mutex Poisoning 296Reader-Writer Lock 297Condition Variables 299Atomic Operations 301Summary 305  Chapter 20: Memory 307Stacks 307Static Values 309The Heap 310Interior Mutability 312RefCell 316OnceCell 318Summary 319  Chapter 21: Macros 321Tokens 322Declarative Macros 323Repetition 325Multiple Macro Matchers 327Procedural Macros 328Derive Macros 329Attribute Macros 332Function-Like Macros 334Summary 335  Chapter 22: Interoperability 337Foreign Function Interface 337Basic Example 339Libc Crate 341Structs 342Bindgen 346C Calling Rust Functions 347Cbindgen 348Summary 351  Chapter 23: Modules 353Module Items 354Module Files 358The path Attribute 360Functions and Modules 361The crate, super, and self Keywords 362Legacy Model 363Summary 365  Index 367