Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development Contributor(s): Blandy, Jim (Author), Orendorff, Jason (Author) |
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ISBN: 1491927283 ISBN-13: 9781491927281 Publisher: O'Reilly Media OUR PRICE: $53.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Programming Languages - General - Computers | Programming - Object Oriented |
Dewey: 005.133 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.9" W x 9.2" (2.10 lbs) 622 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. Written by two experienced systems programmers, this book explains how Rust manages to bridge the gap between performance and safety, and how you can take advantage of it. Topics include:
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Contributor Bio(s): Blandy, Jim: - Jim Blandy has been programming since 1981, and writing Free software since 1990. He has been the maintainer of GNU Emacs and GNU Guile, and a maintainer of GDB, the GNU Debugger. He is one of the original designers of the Subversion version control system. Jim now works on Firefox's web developer tools for Mozilla. Orendorff, Jason: -Jason Orendorff hacks C++ for Mozilla, where he is module owner of the JavaScript engine that's in Firefox. He is an active member of the Nashville developer community and an occasional organizer of homegrown tech events. He is interested in grammar, baking, time travel, and helping people learn about complicated topics. |