Rust: The Practical Programming Guide to Fast, Safe, and Concurrent Systems Development - Softcover

Nouman Azam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493226878 ISBN 13: 9781493226870

Publisher: Rheinwerk Computing, 2025

Synopsis

Build fast, safe, and production-ready systems with Rust! Whether you're coming from Python, Java, or JavaScript, this comprehensive guide takes you from writing your first Rust program to shipping concurrent web applications and command-line tools that your users can rely on.

Start with the fundamentals: variables, functions, and Rust's game-changing ownership model that prevents crashes before your code even compiles. Then level up to real-world programming: build web servers with async Rust, process data efficiently, write multi-threaded applications without data races, and create CLI tools that run blazingly fast. Every chapter includes working code examples you can run immediately and exercises that build production skills.

What you'll master:

• Write memory-safe systems code without a garbage collector
• Build concurrent applications using Rust's ownership and borrowing system
• Create high-performance web services and APIs
• Process text and data efficiently with zero-cost abstractions
• Test, debug, and optimize Rust applications for production
• Use traits and generics to write flexible, reusable code

For developers ready to: Ship faster software, eliminate entire classes of bugs, and join the most-loved programming language community.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Nouman Azam is an associate professor of computer science at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences. He also teaches online programming courses about Rust and MATLAB, and reaches a community of more than 50,000 students.

He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Regina in Canada. Prior to that, he completed his MSc in computer software engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, and his BSc in computer sciences from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan.

Dr. Azam's research interests include game theory, rough sets, conflict analysis, and group decision making.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rheinwerk Computing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1493226878
• ISBN 13: 9781493226870
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 627