Programming with Rust [Paperback]

Donis Marshall has more than twenty years of experience in designing and building enterprise software with Microsoft technologies for leading companies in multiple industries. An endorsed trainer for Microsoft Global Learning Services, he has trained Microsoft developers and engineers for many years. His Microsoft Press books include Solid Code and Programming Microsoft Visual C#.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Rust 1

Introduction 1

Features 4

Rust Terminology 6

Tools 7

Summary 8

 

Chapter 2: Getting Started 9

Preliminaries 9

Rust and Windows 10

Installing Rust 10

Advanced Rustup 11

Hello, World 11

Compile and Run 12

Cargo 13

Library 15

Comments 17

Published Crates 20

Main Function 21

Command-Line Arguments 22

Summary 23

 

Chapter 3: Variables 25

Terminology 25

Variables 26

Primitives 26

Integer Types 27

Overflow 28

Notations 29

Floating Point Types 30

Floating Point Constants 30

Infinity 31

NaN 31

Numeric Ranges 32

Casting 33

Boolean Types 34

Char 34

Pointers 35

Operators 37

Summary 40