rust.md

Rust

Book

Basic

• Rust Book
• Comprehensive Rust
• Learning Rust by Writing a Command Line App in 15 Minutes
• Rust Language Cheat Sheet

Best practice

• Rust Cookbook
• Rust Design Patterns
• Rust API Guidelines
• Pragmatic Rust Guidelines

Performance

• The Rust Performance Book
• Asynchronous Programming in Rust
• Recipes for avoiding bounds checks in Rust, without unsafe!

Online practice

• Rust by Example
• https://rustfinity.com/

Packages

General

• Std: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/index.html
  • Primitive Types
    • slice and Vec
  • Enum Option, Enum Result, Trait Error
  • Struct String, Primitive Type str
• Error: thiserror for library-like code and anyhow for application-like code.

String and bytes

• Byte strings (extension traits for &[u8] and Vec): bstr
• Regular expression: regex
• String search: memchr
• Byte count: bytecount

Hash and HashMap

• Rust port of Google's SwissTable hash map: hashbrown

Array and data frame

• N-dimensional array: ndarray
• Data Frame: polars

CLI

• CLI: clap
• Log: log and fern
• Color: colored or owo-colors
• CPU/Memory: sysinfo
• Progress bar: indicatif
• Signal: CtrlC

IO

• buffered I/O: buffer_redux
• tempfile: tempfile
• mmap: memmap2
• byteorder
• Dir walk: walkdir or ignore for high performance.
• Serialization: bincode

Compression

• Gzip: flate2

Performance

• crossbeam - Tools for concurrent programming
• Data parallelism: rayon
• Asynchronous programming: tokio
• Benchmarking: hyperfine
• PProf: pprof

Testing

• assert_cmd
• predicates

Bioinformatics

• Sequence parser: seq_io, needletail, noodles