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Rust for Pragmatic Developers: Building Reliable, High-Performance Systems with Confidence

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Unlock the full potential of Rust—the language redefining how modern software is built. Rust for Pragmatic Developers is your step-by-step guide to creating fast, reliable, and future-proof systems without the headaches of traditional programming pitfalls.

Whether you’re transitioning from C++, Go, or Python, or you’re new to systems programming altogether, this book gives you the tools and mindset to become a confident Rust developer. Instead of getting lost in theory, you’ll learn how to apply Rust’s unique features—memory safety, zero-cost abstractions, and fearless concurrency—to real-world projects that truly matter.

Inside you’ll

Clear explanations of Rust fundamentals: ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, and idiomatic coding practices.

Practical system-building skills: from safe concurrency and robust error handling to memory management without a garbage collector.

High-performance strategies: async programming, benchmarking, and optimizing real-time pipelines.

Hands-on projects: build command-line tools, scalable web backends, and even embedded IoT applications.

Professional best practices: testing, documentation, deployment, and scaling Rust apps in production environments.

More than just a programming manual, this book is a roadmap for pragmatic developers who want to build trustworthy, high-performance software that stands the test of time. Whether your goal is writing safe concurrent code, building web services, or pushing the limits of embedded systems, this guide equips you with the confidence to deliver.

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to adopt Rust, this is it. Learn to think in Rust, build with precision, and code with confidence.

517 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 3, 2025

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Charles Spark

51 books

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