How To Learn Rust
5/19/2016
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Are You Ready?
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www.rust-lang.org
1.0 on May 15, 2015
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Systems Programming.
Safe, Concurrent, Fast.
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Memory Safety, no GC.
Ownership + Lifetimes.
Types & Traits.
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Errors are here to help
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Primitive types (built-in)
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bool ●
f32, f64
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char ●
isize, usize
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i8, i16, i32, ●
str
i64 ●
tuple
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u8, u16, u32,
u64
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Function Type Signatures
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Function with a type signature
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Synonymous return
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Type Errors
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Anything you can add...
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Traits
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http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/11/traits.html
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Ownership Rules
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No borrow may outlive value's owner
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Exactly 1 mutable reference (&mut T)
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OR
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As many read-only references (&T) as you
want
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Giving Away a Value
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Given away means gone
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Borrow the value
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Make a mutable copy
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Review
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Only owner can access value
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1 mutable reference or unlimited read-only
references to each value
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Borrow may not outlive owner
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Why the to_string()?
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s.html
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y_type_be_copy/
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It Gets Better
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