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Rust is a language for systems programming.
This bears some explanation these days, as systems programming is unfamiliar to most working programmers. Yet it underlies everything we do.
You close your laptop. The operating system detects this, suspends all the running programs, turns off the screen, and puts the computer to sleep. Later, you open the laptop: the screen and other components are powered up again, and each program is able to pick up where it left off. We take this for granted. But systems programmers wrote a lot of code to make that happen.
In short, systems programming is resource-constrained programming. It is programming when every byte and every CPU cycle counts.
The amount of systems code involved in supporting a basic app is staggering.
This book will not teach you systems programming. In fact, this book covers many details of memory management that might seem unnecessarily abstruse at first, if you haven’t already done some systems programming on your own.
But if you are a seasoned systems programmer, you’ll find that Rust is something exceptional: a new tool that eliminates major, well-understood problems that have plagued a whole industry for decades.
