Rust in Depth

Written by Fan Changchun, a contributor to the Rust open-source project, Rust in Depth is divided into five parts. Part One covers Rust basics: variables and types, statements and expressions, functions, traits, arrays and strings, pattern destructuring, the type system, and macros. Part Two explores Rust's unique memory management mechanism: memory management fundamentals, ownership and move semantics, borrowing and lifetimes, borrow checking, NLL, interior mutability, dereferencing, leaks, panics, unsafe code, and an analysis of the Vec source code. Part Three discusses abstraction capabilities: generics, closures, dynamic and static dispatch, containers and iterators, generators, and an overview of the standard library. Part Four addresses concurrency and thread safety: thread safety, Send and Sync, state sharing, channels, and third-party parallel development libraries. Part Five introduces practical engineering facilities: projects and modules, error handling, FFI, documentation and testing, plus a glossary. The author's focus is not to enumerate language features but to explain the ideas behind the language design, helping readers thoroughly understand Rust's advanced features such as algebraic type systems, lifetimes, borrow checking, interior mutability, generics, closures, and iterators. At about 337,000 Chinese characters, the book is suitable for students, software engineers, and researchers, and is also beneficial for understanding other systems programming languages such as C++.