Programming Language References

Rust

The Rust Programming Language

- This is generally the first point of learning for anyone interested in learning Rust.

- Covers topics ranging from basics to some of the useful advances feature of the languare.

- Contains projects to get an hands-on experience with the language and also shows how different error are flagged by the compiler and how to fix them.

Rust Atomics and Locks Low-Level Concurrency in Practice

- A complete guide to concurrency primitives available in Rust and how they work internally.

- Can be a good read for anyone interested about learning concurrent programming in general.

- Covers some OS and ISA specific concepts which needs to be kept in mind when writing multi-threaded programs.

The Rust Performance Book

- Provides a quick and advanced understanding of cost of using different common Rust language constructs.

- Covers a breadth of suggestions and best practices for writing high performance Rust code.

- Contains example links to git commits with respective performance improvement changes in public Rust repos (eg: Using buffered write to reduce number of syscalls).

Asynchronous Programming in Rust

- Talks about how async programming works in general and how Rust implements it.

- Also contains an example on how to build an async executor.

Rust container cheat sheet by Raph Levien

- A great visualization of how different container types are structure in memory

Rust to Assembly: Understanding the Inner Workings of Rust Rust blog by EventHelix

- Provides an Assembly level walk-through of different Rust language constructs.

- Talks about how the Rust compiler optimizes different code snippets and also provides suggestions to improve code performance.