For several consecutive years, Rust has been voted "most loved
programming language" in Stack Overflow's annual developer survey. This
open source systems programming language is now used for everything from
game engines and operating systems to browser components and virtual
reality simulation engines. But Rust is also an incredibly complex
language with a notoriously difficult learning curve.
Rather than focusing on the language as a whole, this guide teaches Rust
using a single small, complete, focused program in each chapter. Author
Ken Youens-Clark shows you how to start, write, and test each of these
programs to create a finished product. You'll learn how to handle errors
in Rust, read and write files, and use regular expressions, Rust types,
structs, and more.
Discover how to:
- Use Rust's standard libraries and data types such as numbers, strings,
vectors, structs, Options, and Results to create command-line programs
- Write and test Rust programs and functions
- Read and write files, including stdin, stdout, and stderr
- Document and validate command-line arguments
- Write programs that fail gracefully
- Parse raw and delimited text manually, using regular expressions and
Rust crates
- Use and control randomness