Article | REF: H3098 V2

Rust Programming Language

Author: Laurent BLOCH

Publication date: June 10, 2022, Review date: February 29, 2024

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1. Modular programming

Rust is designed from the outset to build modular programs. The language's most elementary program unit is the function, designated by the keyword fn, which corresponds equally well to what in other languages is called procedure or function.

The entities available to the programmer for modularity are packages, crates and modules, organized according to paths.

1.1 Packets and crates

Packages and crates refer to the software's general organization (a tree structure), while modules refer to its logical organization. There are two kinds of crates: binary crates, which define executable programs, and library crates, which are collections of modules, themselves collections of functions. A package is a tree structure of crates and modules,...

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