The official book on the Rust programming language, written by the
Rust development team at the Mozilla Foundation, fully updated for Rust
2018.
The Rust Programming Language is the official book on Rust: an open
source systems programming language that helps you write faster, more
reliable software. Rust offers control over low-level details (such as
memory usage) in combination with high-level ergonomics, eliminating the
hassle traditionally associated with low-level languages.
The authors of The Rust Programming Language, members of the Rust Core
Team, share their knowledge and experience to show you how to take full
advantage of Rust's features--from installation to creating robust and
scalable programs. You'll begin with basics like creating functions,
choosing data types, and binding variables and then move on to more
advanced concepts, such as:
Ownership and borrowing, lifetimes, and traits
Using Rust's memory safety guarantees to build fast, safe programs
Testing, error handling, and effective refactoring
Generics, smart pointers, multithreading, trait objects, and advanced
pattern matching
Using Cargo, Rust's built-in package manager, to build, test, and
document your code and manage dependencies
How best to use Rust's advanced compiler with compiler-led programming
techniques
You'll find plenty of code examples throughout the book, as well as
three chapters dedicated to building complete projects to test your
learning: a number guessing game, a Rust implementation of a command
line tool, and a multithreaded server.
New to this edition: An extended section on Rust macros, an expanded
chapter on modules, and appendixes on Rust development tools and
editions.
