The Rust Programming Language, 3rd Edition
Published on 31. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
616 pages
978-1-7185-0444-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Rust Programming Language, 3rd Edition is the official guide to Rust 2024 and the latest iteration of one of the bestselling Rust books of all time. Rust provides control of low-level details along with high-level ergonomics, allowing you to improve productivity and eliminate the hassle traditionally associated with low-level languages. From web apps to operating systems, Rust is a safe, fast, reliable language used for a wide variety of applications.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
994 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7185-0444-8 (9781718504448)
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Steve Klabnik | Carol Nichols | Chris Krycho
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02/2023
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Persons
Steve Klabnik was the lead for the Rust documentation team and one of Rust's core developers. A frequent speaker and a prolific open source contributor, he previously worked on projects such as Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
Carol Nichols is a member of the Rust Crates.io Team and former member of the Rust Core Team. She's a co-founder of Integer 32, LLC, the world's first Rust-focused software consultancy. She has also organized the Rust Belt Rust Conference.
Chris Krycho is a software engineering leader with experience in avionics, developer tools, web frameworks, and more. In addition to his open source software contributions and regular public speaking, he created the New Rustacean podcast (2015-2019).
Carol Nichols is a member of the Rust Crates.io Team and former member of the Rust Core Team. She's a co-founder of Integer 32, LLC, the world's first Rust-focused software consultancy. She has also organized the Rust Belt Rust Conference.
Chris Krycho is a software engineering leader with experience in avionics, developer tools, web frameworks, and more. In addition to his open source software contributions and regular public speaking, he created the New Rustacean podcast (2015-2019).
Content
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Programming a Guessing Game
Chapter 3: Common Programming Concepts
Chapter 4: Understanding Ownership
Chapter 5: Using Structs to Structure Related Data
Chapter 6: Enums and Pattern Matching
Chapter 7: Packages, Crates, and Modules
Chapter 8: Common Collections
Chapter 9: Error Handling
Chapter 10: Generic Types, Traits, and Lifetimes
Chapter 11: Writing Automated Tests
Chapter 12: An I/O Project: Building a Command Line Program
Chapter 13: Functional Language Features: Iterators and Closures
Chapter 14: More About Cargo and Crates.io
Chapter 15: Smart Pointers
Chapter 16: Fearless Concurrency
Chapter 17: Fundamentals of Asynchronous Programming
Chapter 18: Object-Oriented Programming Features
Chapter 19: Patterns and Matching
Chapter 20: Advanced Features
Chapter 21: Final Project: Building a Multithreaded Web Server
Appendix A: Keywords
Appendix B: Operators and Symbols
Appendix C: Derivable Traits
Appendix D: Useful Development Tools
Appendix E: Editions
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Programming a Guessing Game
Chapter 3: Common Programming Concepts
Chapter 4: Understanding Ownership
Chapter 5: Using Structs to Structure Related Data
Chapter 6: Enums and Pattern Matching
Chapter 7: Packages, Crates, and Modules
Chapter 8: Common Collections
Chapter 9: Error Handling
Chapter 10: Generic Types, Traits, and Lifetimes
Chapter 11: Writing Automated Tests
Chapter 12: An I/O Project: Building a Command Line Program
Chapter 13: Functional Language Features: Iterators and Closures
Chapter 14: More About Cargo and Crates.io
Chapter 15: Smart Pointers
Chapter 16: Fearless Concurrency
Chapter 17: Fundamentals of Asynchronous Programming
Chapter 18: Object-Oriented Programming Features
Chapter 19: Patterns and Matching
Chapter 20: Advanced Features
Chapter 21: Final Project: Building a Multithreaded Web Server
Appendix A: Keywords
Appendix B: Operators and Symbols
Appendix C: Derivable Traits
Appendix D: Useful Development Tools
Appendix E: Editions
Index