Ferner - Rust standard library cookbook over 75 recipes to leverage the power of Rust

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Jan Nils Ferner is a senior software engineer and an active contributor to, and advocator of, the open source community.
Over the years, he has acquired a deep understanding of systems programming through languages such as C++ and Rust by modernizing and refactoring big and complex codebases. His passions include all things AI and Blockchain. In his free time, he researches innovative approaches to bringing biology and technology closer together, which has led him to develop his own Machine Learning framework. You can follow his projects on GitHub. His username is jnferner.

Daniel Durante is an avid coffee drinker/roaster, motorcyclist, archer, welder, and carpenter whenever he isnt programming. Right from the age of 12, he has been involved with web and embedded programming with PHP, Node.js, Golang, Rust, and C.
He has worked on text-based browser games that have reached over 1,000,000 active players, created bin-packing software for CNC machines, embedded programming with cortex-m and PIC circuits, high-frequency trading applications, and helped contribute to one of the oldest ORMs of Node.js (SequelizeJS).

Ruben Schmidmeister is a senior software engineer. He has a broad knowledge of all things web and Unix. Over the last 2 years, he has been coding in Rust. His latest Rust project is an open source production-oriented server deployment tool called Toby.

He open sources most of his projects on GitHub under the username bash, so be sure to check that out.

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Mozilla's Rust is slowly gaining attention, with amazing features and a powerful library. This book will take you through varied recipes that will teach you how to leverage the standard library to implement efficient solutions.

The book begins with a brief look at the basic modules of the standard library and collections. From there, the recipes will cover crates, which support file/directory handling and (de)serialization for the most common data formats. You will learn about crates related to advanced data structures, error handling, and networking. You will also learn to work with futures and experimental nightly features. The book also covers the most relevant external crates in Rust. You will be able to compose your own algorithms using the standard modules of the library.

By the end of the book, you will be proficient at using the Rust Standard Library Cookbook.

This book is for developers who would like to explore the power of Rust and learn to use the standard library for various functionalities. Basic Rust programming knowledge and Terminal skills are assumed.

, Learning the Basics, builds a strong foundation of fundamental principles and techniques that are useful in all kinds of situations. It will also show you how to accept user input on the command line so that you can write, all the coming chapters in an interactive way if you wanted to.

, Working with Collections, gives you a comprehensive overview of all the major data collections in Rust, which includes illustrations of how data is stored in your RAM so that you're ready to choose the right collection for the right task.

, Handling Files and the Filesystem