Introduction
Welcome to the Rust Standard Library Showcase! 🦀
This comprehensive guide demonstrates 20 essential features from Rust’s standard library, designed to help developers understand and master Rust’s powerful capabilities.
🎯 What You’ll Learn
This showcase covers three levels of Rust standard library features:
Basic Features (1-10)
Core functionality every Rust developer should know:
- Threading and concurrency
- Time operations and timing
- Collections (HashMap, HashSet)
- File I/O operations
- Path manipulation
- Thread synchronization
- Environment variables
- Process execution
- Error handling with Result
- Option type usage
Intermediate Features (11-15)
Common patterns and advanced traits:
- Network operations (TCP)
- Iterator patterns
- Custom formatting
- Memory management
- Operator overloading
Advanced Features (16-20)
Advanced Rust concepts for complex scenarios:
- Pin and self-referential structs
- Future trait and async foundations
- Shared ownership patterns
- Dynamic typing with Any
- Panic handling and recovery
🚀 Getting Started
Each feature is documented on its own page with:
- Overview - What the feature does
- Code Example - Real code from the showcase
- Explanation - How it works
- Use Cases - When to use it
- Best Practices - Recommended patterns
💡 How to Use This Guide
- Sequential Learning: Start with Basic Features and progress to Advanced
- Reference: Jump to specific features as needed
- Hands-On: Run the actual code from the repository
- Practice: Experiment with the examples
📦 Repository
This documentation accompanies a working Rust project. You can:
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/ioma8/rust-stdlib-showcase.git
cd rust-stdlib-showcase
# Build and run
cargo build
cargo run
The program executes all 20 features with real output you can see and experiment with.
🤝 Contributing
Found an improvement? Want to add more features? Check out the Contributing guide!
Ready to dive in? Start with Threading or jump to any feature in the sidebar! 🚀