Effective Rust - Effective Rust
Effective Rust 35 Specific Ways to Improve Your Rust Code David Drysdale. A printed and ebook version of this book is published by O'Reilly Media:
Types - Effective Rust
This first chapter of this book covers advice that revolves around Rust's type system. This type system is more expressive than that of other mainstream languages; it has more in common …
Preface - Effective Rust
A Rust program that compiles may have a good chance of working the first time, but the struggle to get it to compile is real—even with the Rust compiler's remarkably helpful error diagnostics. …
Concepts - Effective Rust
Effective Rust Concepts The first two chapters of this book covered Rust's types and traits, which helps provide the vocabulary needed to work with some of the concepts involved in writing …
Item 20: Avoid the temptation to over-optimize - Effective Rust
Using Rust's smart pointer types helps solve this problem, by allowing the design to shift from a single-owner model to a shared-owner model. The Rc (for single-threaded code) and Arc (for …
Dependencies - Effective Rust
This chapter of the book will help you be aware of these. The focus is specifically on Rust, and with it the use of the cargo tool, but many of the concerns, topics, and issues covered apply …
Item 34: Control what crosses FFI boundaries - Effective Rust
The details of how the C toolchain generates an external C library—and its format—are environment-specific and beyond the scope of a Rust book like this.
Item 30: Write more than unit tests - Effective Rust
The most effective forms of fuzz testing are coverage-guided: the test infrastructure monitors which parts of the code are executed and favors random mutations of the inputs that explore …
Item 2: Use the type system to express common behavior
Item 1 discussed how to express data structures in the type system; this Item moves on to discuss the encoding of behavior in Rust's type system. The mechanisms described in this Item will …
Item 31: Take advantage of the tooling ecosystem - Effective Rust
When setting up a Rust development environment, you're likely to want most of the following basic tools: 1. The cargo tool for organizing dependencies and driving the compiler; The rustup …