Effective Rust: 35 Specific Ways to Improve Your Rust Code

by David Drysdale

Rust's popularity is growing, due in part to features like memory safety, type safety, and thread safety. But these same elements can also make learning Rust a challenge, even for experienced programmers. This practical guide helps you make the transition to writing idiomatic Rust—while also making full use of Rust's type system, safety guarantees, and burgeoning ecosystem.

If you're a software engineer who has experience with an existing compiled language, or if you've struggled to convert a basic understanding of Rust syntax into working programs, this book is for you. By focusing on the conceptual differences between Rust and other compiled languages, and by providing specific recommendations that programmers can easily follow, Effective Rust will soon have you writing fluent Rust, not just badly translated C++.

Understand the structure of Rust's type systemLearn Rust idioms for error handling, iteration, and moreDiscover how to work with Rust's crate ecosystemUse Rust's type system to express your designWin fights with the borrow checkerBuild a robust project that takes full advantage of the Rust tooling ecosystem

526 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 1, 2024

Reviews

[Christoph Kappel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book and learned quite a lot. All examples are possible to understand, some more, some less, but overall many - welcome to the world of Rust. ;)

[Sergey Shishkin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent "second" book for those learning Rust.