Rust Programming

Rust has a lot of safety checks that ensure memory safety and allow us to completely avoid a lot of the common errors that plague other languages with unrestricted memory freedom.

Rust has multiple built-in ways to terminate the program, and every method has specific behavior whenever it's called. We're going to see how different functions in Rust (which we use to exit the program) act and how to use them.

I've gone into Strings briefly in the beginner's article, but this time, we're going to explore them a little bit more in depth. I will cover some aspects I've already covered only to keep a full 0 to almost 100% info on strings in a single article.

Let's go through some of the basic programming concepts in Rust, such as variables, functions, loops and the like. I realize that I have not covered them in any article before, assuming some small previous knowledge.. Let's fix that by covering them today!

Writing up some Rust code to get the current time, format it and display on the console, maybe add some kind of functionality to guess how much time there is between 2 dates and publish it as a Crates.

Modules allow us to organize our code by separating similar functionality into their own groups for ease of readability and reuse, if need be! Modules also allow us to control the privacy of our code, by making things private or pub (public).

One of the greatest tools a programmer can have under their belt is the ability to write tests to ensure the code they are producing functions well. Rust of course has a way of writing tests, and this allows a test driven development cycle.

One of the key elements Rust has, which is also considered the most unique feature, is Ownership model. This allows memory safe operations without a garbage collector, and completely avoids (if using safe rust), some of the big problems other languages run into when it comes to memory management.

In this article, we have presented the idea of MPSC messages + Shared-State Concurrency in Rust along with Mutex. Pointer, Smart Pointer, Reference Counting and Atomic Reference Counting.

In this article, we have covered the idea of Closures and Communication using Multiple Producer Single Consumer (MPSC) in Rust.

So far, all of our code, all the examples and all the theories we've seen, have been ignoring one of the key features Rust aims to improve in programming. And that is of course, concurrency and parallelism. Today we're going to begin exploring these topics.

We have explored the idea of Daemons, Daemons in Rust, introduction to Cargo and crate and a Rust code example to demonstrate Daemon.

We will dive into some of the Rust language's Standard Library, or std for short namely HashMap and BTreeMap along with basic operations like insert and delete.

We have explored Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in Rust and covered topics like Object, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism and others along with Rust code examples.