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# Introduction | ||
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Welcome to “The Rust Programming Language,” an introductory book about Rust. | ||
> Note: This edition of the book is the same as [The Rust Programming | ||
> Language][nsprust] available in print and ebook format from [No Starch | ||
> Press][nsp]. | ||
Rust is a programming language that helps you write faster, more reliable | ||
software. High-level ergonomics and low-level control are often at odds with | ||
each other in programming language design; Rust stands to challenge that. | ||
Through balancing powerful technical capacity and a great developer experience, | ||
Rust gives you the option to control low-level details (such as memory usage) | ||
without all the hassle traditionally associated with such control. | ||
[nsprust]: https://nostarch.com/rust | ||
[nsp]: https://nostarch.com/ | ||
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## Who Rust is For | ||
Welcome to _The Rust Programming Language_, an introductory book about Rust. | ||
The Rust programming language helps you write faster, more reliable software. | ||
High-level ergonomics and low-level control are often at odds in programming | ||
language design; Rust challenges that conflict. Through balancing powerful | ||
technical capacity and a great developer experience, Rust gives you the option | ||
to control low-level details (such as memory usage) without all the hassle | ||
traditionally associated with such control. | ||
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Rust is great for many people for a variety of reasons. Let’s discuss a few of | ||
## Who Rust Is For | ||
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Rust is ideal for many people for a variety of reasons. Let’s look at a few of | ||
the most important groups. | ||
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### Teams of Developers | ||
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Rust is proving to be a productive tool for collaborating among large teams of | ||
developers with varying levels of systems programming knowledge. Low-level code | ||
is prone to a variety of subtle bugs, which in most other languages can only be | ||
caught through extensive testing and careful code review by experienced | ||
is prone to a variety of subtle bugs, which in most other languages can be | ||
caught only through extensive testing and careful code review by experienced | ||
developers. In Rust, the compiler plays a gatekeeper role by refusing to | ||
compile code with these kinds of bugs--including concurrency bugs. By working | ||
alongside the compiler, the team can spend more time focusing on the logic of | ||
the program rather than chasing down bugs. | ||
compile code with these elusive bugs, including concurrency bugs. By working | ||
alongside the compiler, the team can spend their time focusing on the program’s | ||
logic rather than chasing down bugs. | ||
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Rust also brings contemporary developer tools to the systems programming world: | ||
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* Cargo, the included dependency manager and build tool, makes adding, | ||
- Cargo, the included dependency manager and build tool, makes adding, | ||
compiling, and managing dependencies painless and consistent across the Rust | ||
ecosystem. | ||
* Rustfmt ensures a consistent coding style across developers. | ||
* The Rust Language Server powers IDE integration for code completion and | ||
inline error messages. | ||
- Rustfmt ensures a consistent coding style across developers. | ||
- The Rust Language Server powers Integrated Development Environment (IDE) | ||
integration for code completion and inline error messages. | ||
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By using these and other tools in the Rust ecosystem, developers can be | ||
productive while writing systems-level code. | ||
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### Students | ||
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Rust is for students and people who are interested in learning about systems | ||
concepts. Many people have learned about topics like operating systems | ||
development through Rust. The community is happy to answer student questions. | ||
Through efforts such as this book, the Rust teams want to make systems concepts | ||
more accessible to more people, especially those getting started with | ||
Rust is for students and those who are interested in learning about systems | ||
concepts. Using Rust, many people have learned about topics like operating | ||
systems development. The community is very welcoming and happy to answer | ||
student questions. Through efforts such as this book, the Rust teams want to | ||
make systems concepts more accessible to more people, especially those new to | ||
programming. | ||
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### Companies | ||
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Rust is used in production by hundreds of companies, large and small, for a | ||
variety of tasks, such as command line tools, web services, DevOps tooling, | ||
Hundreds of companies, large and small, use Rust in production for a variety of | ||
tasks. Those tasks include command line tools, web services, DevOps tooling, | ||
embedded devices, audio and video analysis and transcoding, cryptocurrencies, | ||
bioinformatics, search engines, internet of things applications, machine | ||
bioinformatics, search engines, Internet of Things applications, machine | ||
learning, and even major parts of the Firefox web browser. | ||
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### Open Source Developers | ||
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Rust is for people who want to build the Rust programming language, community, | ||
developer tools, and libraries. We’d love for you to contribute to the Rust | ||
developer tools, and libraries. We’d love to have you contribute to the Rust | ||
language. | ||
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### People Who Value Speed and Stability | ||
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By speed, we mean both the speed of the programs that Rust lets you create and | ||
the speed at which Rust lets you write them. The Rust compiler’s checks ensure | ||
stability through feature additions and refactoring, as opposed to brittle | ||
legacy code in languages without these checks that developers are afraid to | ||
modify. By striving for zero-cost abstractions, higher level features that | ||
compile to lower level code as fast as code written manually, Rust endeavors to | ||
make safe code be fast code as well. | ||
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This isn’t a complete list of everyone the Rust language hopes to support, but | ||
these are some of the biggest stakeholders. Overall, Rust’s greatest ambition | ||
is to take trade-offs that have been accepted by programmers for decades and | ||
eliminate the dichotomy. Safety *and* productivity. Speed *and* ergonomics. | ||
Give Rust a try, and see if its choices work for you. | ||
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## Who This Book is For | ||
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This book assumes that you’ve written code in some other programming language, | ||
but doesn’t make any assumptions about which one. We’ve tried to make the | ||
material broadly accessible to those from a wide variety of programming | ||
backgrounds. We don’t spend a lot of time talking about what programming *is* | ||
or how to think about it; someone new to programming entirely would be better | ||
served by reading a book specifically providing an introduction to programming. | ||
Rust is for people who crave speed and stability in a language. By speed, we | ||
mean the speed of the programs that you can create with Rust and the speed at | ||
which Rust lets you write them. The Rust compiler’s checks ensure stability | ||
through feature additions and refactoring. This is in contrast to the brittle | ||
legacy code in languages without these checks, which developers are often | ||
afraid to modify. By striving for zero-cost abstractions, higher-level features | ||
that compile to lower-level code as fast as code written manually, Rust | ||
endeavors to make safe code be fast code as well. | ||
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The Rust language hopes to support many other users as well; those mentioned | ||
here are merely some of the biggest stakeholders. Overall, Rust’s greatest | ||
ambition is to eliminate the trade-offs that programmers have accepted for | ||
decades by providing safety _and_ productivity, speed _and_ ergonomics. Give | ||
Rust a try and see if its choices work for you. | ||
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## Who This Book Is For | ||
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This book assumes that you’ve written code in another programming language but | ||
doesn’t make any assumptions about which one. We’ve tried to make the material | ||
broadly accessible to those from a wide variety of programming backgrounds. We | ||
don’t spend a lot of time talking about what programming _is_ or how to think | ||
about it. If you’re entirely new to programming, you would be better served by | ||
reading a book that specifically provides an introduction to programming. | ||
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## How to Use This Book | ||
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This book generally assumes that you’re reading it front-to-back, that is, | ||
later chapters build on top of concepts in earlier chapters, and earlier | ||
chapters may not dig into details on a topic, revisiting the topic in a later | ||
chapter. | ||
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There are two kinds of chapters in this book: concept chapters, and project | ||
chapters. In concept chapters, you’ll learn about an aspect of Rust. In the | ||
project chapters, we’ll build small programs together, applying what we’ve | ||
learned so far. Chapters 2, 12, and 20 are project chapters; the rest are | ||
concept chapters. | ||
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Additionally, Chapter 2 is a hands-on introduction to Rust as a language. We’ll | ||
cover concepts at a high level, and later chapters will go into them in detail. | ||
If you’re the kind of person who likes to get their hands dirty right away, | ||
Chapter 2 is great for that. If you’re *really* that kind of person, you may | ||
even wish to skip over Chapter 3, which covers features that are very similar | ||
to other programming languages, and go straight to Chapter 4 to learn about | ||
Rust’s ownership system. By contrast, if you’re a particularly meticulous | ||
learner who prefers to learn every detail before moving onto the next, you may | ||
want to skip Chapter 2 and go straight to Chapter 3. | ||
In general, this book assumes that you’re reading it in sequence from front to | ||
back. Later chapters build on concepts in earlier chapters, and earlier | ||
chapters might not delve into details on a topic; we typically revisit the | ||
topic in a later chapter. | ||
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You’ll find two kinds of chapters in this book: concept chapters and project | ||
chapters. In concept chapters, you’ll learn about an aspect of Rust. In project | ||
chapters, we’ll build small programs together, applying what you’ve learned so | ||
far. Chapters 2, 12, and 20 are project chapters; the rest are concept chapters. | ||
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Chapter 1 explains how to install Rust, how to write a Hello, world! program, | ||
and how to use Cargo, Rust’s package manager and build tool. Chapter 2 is a | ||
hands-on introduction to the Rust language. Here we cover concepts at a high | ||
level, and later chapters will provide additional detail. If you want to get | ||
your hands dirty right away, Chapter 2 is the place for that. At first, you | ||
might even want to skip Chapter 3, which covers Rust features similar to those | ||
of other programming languages, and head straight to Chapter 4 to learn about | ||
Rust’s ownership system. However, if you’re a particularly meticulous learner | ||
who prefers to learn every detail before moving on to the next, you might want | ||
to skip Chapter 2 and go straight to Chapter 3, returning to Chapter 2 when | ||
you’d like to work on a project applying the details you’ve learned. | ||
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Chapter 5 discusses structs and methods, and Chapter 6 covers enums, `match` | ||
expressions, and the `if let` control flow construct. Structs and enums are the | ||
ways to make custom types in Rust. | ||
expressions, and the `if let` control flow construct. You’ll use structs and | ||
enums to make custom types in Rust. | ||
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In Chapter 7, you'll learn about Rust's module system and privacy for | ||
organizing your code and its public API. Chapter 8 discusses some common | ||
collection data structures provided by the standard library: vectors, strings, | ||
and hash maps. Chapter 9 is all about Rust's error handling philosophy and | ||
techniques. | ||
In Chapter 7, you’ll learn about Rust’s module system and about privacy rules | ||
for organizing your code and its public Application Programming Interface | ||
(API). Chapter 8 discusses some common collection data structures that the | ||
standard library provides, such as vectors, strings, and hash maps. Chapter 9 | ||
explores Rust’s error-handling philosophy and techniques. | ||
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Chapter 10 digs into generics, traits, and lifetimes, which give you the power | ||
to define code that applies to multiple types. Chapter 11 is all about testing, | ||
which is still necessary even with Rust's safety guarantees to ensure your | ||
program's logic is correct. In Chapter 12, we'll build a subset of the | ||
functionality of the `grep` command line tool that searches for text within | ||
files and we'll use many of the concepts we discussed in the previous chapters. | ||
which even with Rust’s safety guarantees is necessary to ensure your program’s | ||
logic is correct. In Chapter 12, we’ll build our own implementation of a subset | ||
of functionality from the `grep` command line tool that searches for text | ||
within files. For this, we’ll use many of the concepts we discussed in the | ||
previous chapters. | ||
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Chapter 13 explores closures and iterators: features of Rust that come from | ||
functional programming languages. In Chapter 14, we'll explore more about Cargo | ||
and talk about best practices for sharing your libraries with others. Chapter | ||
15 discusses smart pointers provided by the standard library and the traits | ||
that enable their functionality. | ||
functional programming languages. In Chapter 14, we’ll examine Cargo in more | ||
depth and talk about best practices for sharing your libraries with others. | ||
Chapter 15 discusses smart pointers that the standard library provides and the | ||
traits that enable their functionality. | ||
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In Chapter 16, we'll go through different models of concurrent programming and | ||
how Rust helps you to program using multiple threads fearlessly. Chapter 17 | ||
looks at how Rust idioms compare to Object Oriented Programming principles you | ||
may be familiar with. | ||
In Chapter 16, we’ll walk through different models of concurrent programming | ||
and talk about how Rust helps you to program in multiple threads fearlessly. | ||
Chapter 17 looks at how Rust idioms compare to object-oriented programming | ||
principles you might be familiar with. | ||
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Chapter 18 is a reference on patterns and pattern matching, which are powerful | ||
ways of expressing ideas throughout Rust programs. Chapter 19 is a smorgasbord | ||
of advanced topics that you might be interested in, including unsafe Rust and | ||
ways of expressing ideas throughout Rust programs. Chapter 19 contains a | ||
smorgasbord of advanced topics of interest, including unsafe Rust, macros, and | ||
more about lifetimes, traits, types, functions, and closures. | ||
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In Chapter 20, we'll finish up with a project where we'll implement a low-level | ||
In Chapter 20, we’ll complete a project in which we’ll implement a low-level | ||
multithreaded web server! | ||
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Finally, there are some appendices. These contain useful information about the | ||
language in a more reference-like format. | ||
Finally, some appendixes contain useful information about the language in a | ||
more reference-like format. Appendix A covers Rust’s keywords, Appendix B | ||
covers Rust’s operators and symbols, Appendix C covers derivable traits | ||
provided by the standard library, Appendix D covers some useful development | ||
tools, and Appendix E explains Rust editions. | ||
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There is no wrong way to read this book: if you want to skip ahead, go for it! | ||
You might have to jump back to earlier chapters if you experience any | ||
confusion. But do whatever works for you. | ||
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In the end, there’s no wrong way to read a book: if you want to skip ahead, go | ||
for it! You may have to jump back if you find things confusing. Do whatever | ||
works for you. | ||
<span id="ferris"></span> | ||
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An important part of the process of learning Rust is learning how to read the | ||
error messages that the compiler gives you. As such, we’ll be showing a lot of | ||
code that doesn’t compile, and the error message the compiler will show you in | ||
that situation. As such, if you pick a random example, it may not compile! | ||
Please read the surrounding text to make sure that you didn’t happen to pick | ||
one of the in-progress examples. | ||
error messages the compiler displays: these will guide you toward working code. | ||
As such, we’ll provide many examples that don’t compile along with the error | ||
message the compiler will show you in each situation. Know that if you enter | ||
and run a random example, it may not compile! Make sure you read the | ||
surrounding text to see whether the example you’re trying to run is meant to | ||
error. Ferris will also help you distinguish code that isn’t meant to work: | ||
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| Ferris | Meaning | | ||
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | | ||
| <img src="img/ferris/does_not_compile.svg" class="ferris-explain"/> | This code does not compile! | | ||
| <img src="img/ferris/panics.svg" class="ferris-explain"/> | This code panics! | | ||
| <img src="img/ferris/unsafe.svg" class="ferris-explain"/> | This code block contains unsafe code. | | ||
| <img src="img/ferris/not_desired_behavior.svg" class="ferris-explain"/> | This code does not produce the desired behavior. | | ||
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In most situations, we’ll lead you to the correct version of any code that | ||
doesn’t compile. | ||
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## Contributing to the Book | ||
## Source Code | ||
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This book is open source. If you find an error, please don’t hesitate to file | ||
an issue or send a pull request [on GitHub]. Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md] for | ||
more details. | ||
The source files from which this book is generated can be found on | ||
[GitHub][book]. | ||
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[on GitHub]: https://github.com/rust-lang/book | ||
[CONTRIBUTING.md]: https://github.com/rust-lang/book/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md | ||
[book]: https://github.com/rust-lang/book/tree/master/src |