Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

Rust combines low-level control with memory safety, making it an ideal choice for systems programming. This practical guide is for experienced programmers looking to write fast, reliable code while avoiding common pitfalls like data races and buffer overflows. Authors Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, and Leonora Tindall explain Rust's unique approach to ownership, borrowing, and concurrency, helping you build safe, high-performance applications.

Fully updated for Rust's 2024 edition, this book introduces the latest language advancements while covering essential topics like generics, async programming, and C interoperability. Whether you're working on low-latency systems, embedded software, or multithreaded applications, this edition equips you with the knowledge to write efficient, production-ready Rust code.

• Learn Rust's core principles, including ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes
• Write safe, efficient concurrent code without data races
• Use powerful features like macros, closures, and async programming
• Integrate Rust with C and C++ through FFI and unsafe code
• Apply best practices to write performance-critical, memory-safe applications

Jim Blandy has been programming since 1981 and writing free software since 1990. He has worked on GNU Emacs, GNU Guile, and the GNU Debugger, and now works on Firefox at Mozilla.

Jason Orendorff is an experienced systems programmer who’s worked on database tools, search engines, and Firefox’s JavaScript engine. He’s currently working on code search at GitHub.

Leonora Tindall has been writing Rust since she graduated from Beloit College in 2020, at several software companies, most recently for Fastly, Inc.. She is an enthusiastic user and contributor to free and open source software, including efforts to build free desktop environments, various distributed social media projects, and occasionally Rust itself. Leonora lives in Chicago, Illinois. She enjoys tabletop role-playing games, archery, and prairie cultivation.