Advanced Technologies for Application Development

1. 1
   The Landscape of Modern Systems Programming

   Beyond Garbage-Collected Languages · Go: Simplicity as a Feature · Rust: Safety Without Compromise · Comparing Go and Rust · How This Book Is Organized

Part I · Go

1. 2
   Getting Started with Go

   The Go Toolchain · Modules and Packages · Program Structure · Development Environments
2. 3
   Types, Variables, and Control Flow in Go

   Basic Types · Variables and Constants · Operators · Control Flow · Pointers
3. 4
   Functions, Methods, and Error Handling in Go

   Functions · Methods · Error Handling · Deferred Execution
4. 5
   Composite Types and Data Modeling in Go

   Arrays · Slices · Maps · Structs · Working with JSON
5. 6
   Interfaces and Generics in Go

   Interfaces · Generics · Design Patterns with Interfaces
6. 7
   Concurrent Programming with Goroutines and Channels

   Concurrency vs. Parallelism · Goroutines · Channels · The select Statement · Synchronization Primitives · The context Package · Common Concurrency Patterns
7. 8
   Testing, Benchmarking, and Profiling in Go

   The testing Package · Table-Driven Tests · Test Helpers and Utilities · Test Coverage · Benchmarking · Profiling · Fuzzing
8. 9
   Building HTTP Services in Go

   The net/http Package · Building a REST API · Middleware · Working with Databases · The HTTP Client · Structured Logging with slog

Part II · Rust

1. 10
   Getting Started with Rust

   The Rust Toolchain · Cargo: The Build System and Package Manager · Program Structure · Development Environments · The Compiler as Teacher
2. 11
   Types, Variables, and Control Flow in Rust

   Variables and Mutability · Scalar Types · Compound Types · Strings · Type Conversions · Control Flow
3. 12
   Ownership, Borrowing, and Lifetimes

   The Ownership Model · References and Borrowing · Slices · Lifetimes · How This Differs from Go
4. 13
   Structs, Methods, and Data Modeling in Rust

   Defining Structs · Methods and Associated Functions · Deriving Common Functionality · Visibility and Encapsulation
5. 14
   Enums, Pattern Matching, and Error Handling in Rust

   Enums · Pattern Matching with match · if let and while let · The Option<T> Type · The Result<T, E> Type · Custom Error Types · When to Panic vs. When to Return Result
6. 15
   Generics, Traits, and Polymorphism in Rust

   Generic Types · Traits · Trait Bounds · Trait Objects and Dynamic Dispatch · Common Standard Library Traits · Supertraits
7. 16
   Iterators, Closures, and Collections in Rust

   Closures · Iterators · Collections · Loops vs. Iterators: Performance Comparison
8. 17
   Concurrency and Smart Pointers in Rust

   Smart Pointers · Fearless Concurrency · Message Passing with Channels · Shared State Concurrency · The Send and Sync Traits · Introduction to Async Programming
9. 18
   Testing, Benchmarking, and Profiling in Rust

   Unit Tests · Integration Tests · Test Organization and Control · Mocking and Test Doubles · Benchmarking · Property-Based Testing · Code Coverage and Profiling
10. 19
    Building HTTP Services in Rust

    The Rust Web Ecosystem · Building a REST API with axum · Serialization with serde · Middleware with Tower · Database Access with sqlx · The HTTP Client with reqwest · Structured Logging with tracing

Anexe

1. A
   Development Environment Setup
2. B
   Go Quick Reference
3. C
   Rust Quick Reference
4. D
   Secure Development in Go and Rust
5. E
   Interoperability Across the Language Boundary
6. F
   Building, Shipping, and Operating
7. G
   Reading Compiler Errors