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"This well-written book will help you make the most of what Rust has to offer." - Ramnivas Laddad, author of AspectJ in Action

Rust in Action is a hands-on guide to systems programming with Rust. Written for inquisitive programmers, it presents real-world use cases that go far beyond syntax and structure.

Summary
Rust in Action introduces the Rust programming language by exploring numerous systems programming concepts and techniques. You'll be learning Rust by delving into how computers work under the hood. You'll find yourself playing with persistent storage, memory, networking and even tinkering with CPU instructions. The book takes you through using Rust to extend other applications and teaches you tricks to write blindingly fast code. You'll also discover parallel and concurrent programming. Filled to the brim with real-life use cases and scenarios, you'll go beyond the Rust syntax and see what Rust has to offer in real-world use cases.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology
Rust is the perfect language for systems programming. It delivers the low-level power of C along with rock-solid safety features that let you code fearlessly. Ideal for applications requiring concurrency, Rust programs are compact, readable, and blazingly fast. Best of all, Rust’s famously smart compiler helps you avoid even subtle coding errors.

About the book
Rust in Action is a hands-on guide to systems programming with Rust. Written for inquisitive programmers, it presents real-world use cases that go far beyond syntax and structure. You’ll explore Rust implementations for file manipulation, networking, and kernel-level programming and discover awesome techniques for parallelism and concurrency. Along the way, you’ll master Rust’s unique borrow checker model for memory management without a garbage collector.

What's inside

    Elementary to advanced Rust programming
    Practical examples from systems programming
    Command-line, graphical and networked applications

About the reader
For intermediate programmers. No previous experience with Rust required.

About the author
Tim McNamara uses Rust to build data processing pipelines and generative art. He is an expert in natural language processing and data engineering.

Table of Contents

1 Introducing Rust
PART 1 RUST LANGUAGE DISTINCTIVES
2 Language foundations
3 Compound data types
4 Lifetimes, ownership, and borrowing
PART 2 DEMYSTIFYING SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING
5 Data in depth
6 Memory
7 Files and storage
8 Networking
9 Time and timekeeping
10 Processes, threads, and containers
11 Kernel
12 Signals, interrupts, and exceptions

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978-1617294556
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1st
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Manning
Publication date

September 7, 2021
Language

English
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9164 KB
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"I highly recommend this book to those who want to learn Rust."—Afshin Mehrabani, Etsy

"This well-written book will help you make the most of what Rust has
to offer."—Ramnivas Laddad, author of AspectJ in Action

"Makes it easy to explore the language and get going with it."—Federico Hernandez, Meltwater

"Rust in Action is remarkably polished!"—Christopher Haupt, Swoogo

"Engaging writing style and crisp, easy-to-grasp examples help the
reader get off the ground in no time."—Sumant Tambe, Linkedin --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

Tim McNamara is an experienced programmer with a deep interest in natural language processing, text mining, and wider forms of machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is very active in open source communities including the New Zealand Open Source Society. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B098BNGMWH
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning; 1st edition (September 7, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 7, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 9164 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 455 pages

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- #20 in Parallel Computer Programming

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Wil C

Excellent pedagogy.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 19, 2022

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Rust is complex.
Tim does a great job incrementally exposing you to manageable chunks of related features.

He tries to "meet you half way" if you're coming from another popular language.

One pedantic issue is the pages are thin, so highlighters mark both sides. Zero regrets on this purchase though. Excellent resource.

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Captain Yossarian

Very good book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 8, 2022

I read all books (more or less known) about Rust. This one is good because it contains a lot of practical examples. It becomes clear that author is a Rust expert.

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Kent Bull

Well written, easily readable, and approachable book on Rust

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 5, 2022

I am only to chapter 6 right now yet I already feel significantly familiar with Rust. I appreciate the CPU example in chapter 5.

I will update this review once I finish the book.

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mark_man

A great second book for learning Rust, without the dry explanations common in programming books

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 17, 2022

By the time you finish this book, you will have gained a thorough grounding in the Rust language as well as good start into systems computing. So often, its hard to find an ideal 2nd book to continue your new language journey, but that is exactly the role this book covers. This approach makes this book so useful and valuable for programmers who haven't been coding more than a few years and want to learn the new, hot language that Rust obviously is. This book is integral preparation for starting the reader off in any number of different directions. Not best for beginning programmers, but intermediate or higher will find a home in its pages.

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Chris MacNaughton

Fantastic read from start to finish; the perfect mix of theory and practice

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 29, 2022

From the beginning, Rust in Action is great! The book starts with a fantastic introduction to Rust and then follows that up going more in-depth on practical examples. It does a great job of de-mystifying "systems programming" with "real" programs that the reader can work through!

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Pedro C.

A must if you want to learn Rust

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 28, 2022

Amazing book for learning Rust (and bits of system programming)!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 18, 2022

In Action is fair way to describe this book. The examples are not a class exercise but real life applications.

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George Thomas

good book to learn Rust

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 3, 2022

This is a well written book -- there is enough here to get started comfortably in a Rust programming team. In about 450 pages the author expertly covers quite some ground, clearly explaining the programming concepts. Part I is on the language itself, and Part II is on systems programming; so you get two books in one. These two parts are written with care and integrity, Part II strengthening your skills to perform in an enterprise setting.

Part I is among best Rust primers that I know of where rust-specific concepts such as ownership and borrow are carefully done. Systems Programming deals with OS/hardware level programming that is traditionally done in C/C++ languages. Now Rust, as a modern language, comes with everything it takes to shine in the Systems area. Its potential is really huge, we got to wait and see. Part II introduces Rust for systems programming. This is helpful and welcome since Rust's own official documentation is quite terse for beginners.

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Peter Hearn

Good for converting existing C/C++ coders to Rust. Not for low-level language beginners.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 10, 2022

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Hung in until page 61 when it became clear it was too quick-paced for me. It has to be said I absolutely suck at programming, so my review is for those who, like me, are approaching Rust from easy languages like C# which make things super easy but are slow and bloated.

If you are good at maths and perhaps already a strong programmer in a language like C, then I think you'll enjoy this book. If, like me, you need a concept explaining before the example hits you, you'll possibly struggle. The style of the book is to list some code, then pick out the syntax points, the reader apparently already innately aware as to why the concept itself matters.

Thus I'd recommend this as a conversion book for experienced C/C++ coders. For the pedestrian among us who nevertheless realise Python is an abomination and want a fast, reliable, typed language, find a more basic text to follow that explains why you'd want to do something before hitting you in the face with the intricacies of the syntax.

Good coding book - if you're already good at coding.

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Cruzito

Amazing for developers with no systems level experience.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 28, 2022

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I'm from a web development background, specifically with Java and NodeJS, this was a really good book to get started with Rust and learn what happens under the hood with the execution of your code.

The official "rust book" doesn't cover a lot and sometimes can feel very overwhelming after each chapter, Rust in Action does a brilliant job explaining all the minor details as if it was communicating to a monkey.

If you're interested in picking up Rust (why wouldn't you be, if you're reading this review?) Rust in Action and Programming in Rust is a good reference. With the combination with these two books and online resources, you cannot fail.

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