Programming Rust Fast Safe Systems Development

Systems programming provides the foundation for the world's computation. Developing performance-sensitive code requires a programming language that puts programmers in control of how memory, processor time, and other system resources are used. The Rust systems programming language combines that control with a modern type system that catches broad classes of common mistakes, from memory management errors to interthread data races.

This practical book introduces systems programmers to Rust, the new and cutting-edge language. You'll learn how Rust offers the rare and valuable combination of statically verified memory safety and low-level control–imagine C++, but without dangling pointers, null pointer dereferences, leaks, or buffer overruns.

Rust is a new systems programming language that combines the performance and low-level control of C and C++ with memory safety and thread safety. Rust’s modern, flexible types ensure your program is free of null pointer dereferences, double frees, dangling pointers, and similar bugs, all at compile time, without runtime overhead. In multi-threaded code, Rust catches data races at compile time, making concurrency much easier to use.