Rust Systems Programming

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A comprehensive guide for building robust, memory-safe systems software without the overhead of a garbage collector. This skill provides expert implementation patterns for Rust's core concepts, including the ownership and borrowing system, thread-safe concurrency, and efficient async programming. It offers specialized guidance on handling unsafe code, interfacing with foreign functions (FFI), and leveraging memory sanitizers to ensure production-grade reliability and near-native performance across CLI tools, network services, and low-level hardware interfaces.

Key Features

• Best practices for async/await programming and high-performance I/O
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• Optimization strategies using zero-cost abstractions and address/thread sanitizers
• Implementation patterns for thread-safe concurrency and message passing
• Techniques for safe FFI integration and low-level unsafe code management
• Guidance on the ownership, borrowing, and lifetime system to ensure memory safety

Use Cases

• Developing embedded systems or command-line utilities with minimal runtime overhead
• Rewriting performance-critical C/C++ modules for improved memory safety
• Building high-performance network services or database engines