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Rust

Auditing for security vulnerabilities

• cargo-audit
• cargo-deny

Benchmarking

More info here in performance book.

Important to use RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native" to let the compiler use instructions specific to the current CPU.

Tools:

• Criterion - standard (almost everyone uses this one)
• Bencher - an old port
• rustfilt - demangle Rust symbols

Books

• The Rust Programming Language
• Too Many Linked Lists
• Rust by Example
• The Rust Performance Book
• The Little Book of Rust Macros
• Rust Design Patterns
• Rust Atomics and Locks
• Comprehensive Rust - a 4 day Rust course by Android team
• Futures Explained in 200 Lines of Rust

Code coverage

• tarpaulin

Error handling

• anyhow
• thiserror

Faster linking

Put this in .cargo/config.toml in your project to use lld or zld instead of default linker.

# On Windows
# ```
# cargo install -f cargo-binutils
# rustup component add llvm-tools-preview
# ```
[target.x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=lld"]

[target.x86_64-pc-windows-gnu]
rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=lld"]

# On Linux:
# - Ubuntu, `sudo apt-get install lld clang`
# - Arch, `sudo pacman -S lld clang`

[target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu]
rustflags = ["-C", "linker=clang", "-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=lld"]

# On MacOS, `brew install michaeleisel/zld/zld`

[target.x86_64-apple-darwin]
rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=/usr/local/bin/zld"]

[target.aarch64-apple-darwin]
rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=/usr/local/bin/zld"

More info why is here.

Logging / tracing

• log + env_logger
• tracing
• bunyan - pretty printing JSON logs

Utilities

• cargo-watch - watch for changes and execute
• cargo-expand - expand macros
• cargo-msrv - find the minimum supported Rust version
• cargo-udeps - find unused deps