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

Chapter 4: Strings 41

Str 41

String 42

Length 43

Extending a String 44

Capacity 45

Accessing a String Value 46

String Characters 48

Deref Coercion 48

Formatted String 49

Helpful Functions 49

Summary 52

Chapter 5: Console 53

Print 53

Positional Arguments 54

Variable Arguments 55

Named Arguments 55

Padding, Alignment, and Precision 56

Base 58

Developer Facing 59

Write! Macro 60

Display Trait 60

Debug Trait 62

Format! Macro 63

Console Read and Write 63

Summary 64

Chapter 6: Control Flow 65

The if Expression 65

The while Expression 68

The for Expression 70

The loop Expression 73

The Iterator Trait 76

Summary 78

Chapter 7: Collections 79

Arrays 79

Vectors 86

HashMap 91

Summary 95

Chapter 8: Ownership 97

Stack and Heap Memory 98

Shallow versus Deep Copy 98

Car Analogy 99

Move Semantics 99

Borrow 101

Copy Semantics 101

Clone Trait 102

Copy Trait 103

Clone Trait 104

Summary 105

Chapter 9: Lifetimes 107

Introduction to Lifetimes 108

Function Headers and Lifetimes 109

Lifetime Annotation 111

Lifetime Elision 112

Complex Lifetimes 113

Sharing a Lifetime 114

Static Lifetimes 115

Structs and Lifetimes 116

Methods and Lifetimes 116

Subtyping Lifetimes 118

Anonymous Lifetimes 120

Generics and Lifetimes 121

Summary 121

Chapter 10: References 123

Declaration 124

Borrowing 124

Dereferencing 125

Comparing References 126

Reference Notation 127

Reference to Reference 128

Mutability 129

Limits to Multiple Borrowers 130

Summary 131

Chapter 11: Functions 133

Function Definition 133

Parameters 134

Function Return 136

Const Functions 138

Nested Functions 139

Function Pointers 140

Function Aliases 142

Summary 143

Chapter 12: Error Handling 145

Handling Error Handling 145

The Result Enum 146

The Option Enum 147

Panics 148

Unwrapping 154

Match Pattern for Result and Option 156

Map 158

Rich Errors 160

Custom Errors 161

Summary 163

Chapter 13: Structures 165

Alternate Initialization 167

Move Semantics 169

Mutability 170

Methods 170

Self 172

Associated Functions 173

Impl Blocks 174

Operator Overloading 175

Tuple Struct 179

Summary 180

Chapter 14: Generics 181

Generic Functions 182

Bounds 186

The where Clause 188

Structs 190

Associated Functions 194

Enums 195

Generic Traits 197

Explicit Specialization 200

Summary 205

Chapter 15: Patterns 207

Let Statement 207

Wildcards 208

Complex Patterns 209

Ownership 210

Irrefutable 212

Ranges 213

Multiple Patterns 214

Control Flow 215

Structs 216

Functions 219

Match Expressions 220

Match Guards 224

Summary 227

Chapter 16: Closures 229

Hello, World 229

Closure Syntax 230

Closed Over 231

Closures as Function Arguments 233

Closures as Function Return Values 234

Implementation of Closures 235

Matrix Example 242

Summary 244

Chapter 17: Traits 245

Trait Definition 245

Default Functions 248

Marker Trait 249

Associated Functions 249

Associated Types 251

Extension Methods 253

Fully Qualified Syntax 254

Supertraits 257

Static Dispatch 260

Dynamic Dispatch 262

Enums and Traits 263

Summary 265

Chapter 18: Threads 1 267

Synchronous Function Calls 268

Threads 269

The Thread Type 273

Processor Time 274

Builder 275

Communicating Sequential Process 276

Asynchronous Channel 277

Synchronous Channel 279

Rendezvous Channel 280

The try Methods 281

Store Example 286

Summary 290

Chapter 19: Threads 2 291

Mutex 291

Nonscoped Mutex 294

Mutex Poisoning 296

Reader-Writer Lock 297

Condition Variables 299

Atomic Operations 301

Summary 305

Chapter 20: Memory 307

Stacks 307

Static Values 309

The Heap 310

Interior Mutability 312

RefCell 316

OnceCell 318

Summary 319

Chapter 21: Macros 321

Tokens 322

Declarative Macros 323

Repetition 325

Multiple Macro Matchers 327

Procedural Macros 328

Derive Macros 329

Attribute Macros 332

Function-Like Macros 334

Summary 335

Chapter 22: Interoperability 337

Foreign Function Interface 337

Basic Example 339

Libc Crate 341

Structs 342

Bindgen 346

C Calling Rust Functions 347

Cbindgen 348

Summary 351

Chapter 23: Modules 353

Module Items 354

Module Files 358

The path Attribute 360

Functions and Modules 361

The crate, super, and self Keywords 362

Legacy Model 363

Summary 365

Index 367