Practical System Programming for Rust Developers: Build fast and secure software for Linux/Unix systems with the help of practical examples

Most non-bare-metal coding for systems is done in C or C++, but Rust is proving a promising substitute (it still needs a bit to completely replace C/C++). This book helps someone who's done the intro to Rust work and knows the language a bit, and wants to dip their toe in system programming with Rust instead of C.It's a concise well-written book by people who know what systems programming is. I recommend it, but like I said before, Rust still has a bit more to go before replacing C/C++. (It's not a bad language, it's just very new and needs to grow more and after feature-building, focus on stability. C and C++ have decades of a head start in stability and optimized compilers.)It's not a book to teach you Rust, but it will give you that "next step" needed to see where you might want to use Rust in your own environment.

If you can get through the first 30-40 pages of the book, things really start to get interesting. Reading it is like going to a really engaging lecture from my university.The author does a great job varying the levels of abstraction/concreteness so it doesn't feel monotonous, and as a result the reader gets to peel back layers of mystery one paragraph after another.