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Rust for Rustaceans: Idiomatic Programming for Experienced Developers

by Jon Gjengset

Picks up where the Book stops: variance, trait coherence and object safety, declarative and procedural macros, unsafe abstractions, FFI, testing, and crate design. After it you can build and maintain a published library.

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