Self Link: Programming in Rust
These notes contain the various Rust concepts I picked up when reading the book, The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols. These notes were taken from the perspective of someone who has been programming for over 10 years. So they might skip some basic concepts that are common amongst programming languages.
Rust provides a variety of advantages over legacy programming languages -
- Rust provides speed and stability -
- C/C++ lack stability.
- Python lacks speed.
- Rust offers compile-time memory safety -
- No un-initialized variables.
- No double-frees or use-after-frees.
- No
NULLpointers. - No forgotten locked mutexes or data races.
- No iterator invalidation.
- Rust has no undefined runtime behavior -
- Integer overflow is defined.
- Array access is bounds-checked.
List of topics to further explore -