SUMMARY.md

Summary

Introduction

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Part I: Type-Level Patterns

• 1. Generics — The Full Picture
• 2. Traits In Depth
• 3. The Newtype and Type-State Patterns
• 4. PhantomData — Types That Carry No Data

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Part II: Concurrency & Runtime

• 5. Channels and Message Passing
• 6. Concurrency vs Parallelism vs Threads
• 7. Closures and Higher-Order Functions
• 8. Functional vs. Imperative: When Elegance Wins
• 9. Smart Pointers and Interior Mutability

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Part III: Systems & Production

• 10. Error Handling Patterns
• 11. Serialization, Zero-Copy, and Binary Data
• 12. Unsafe Rust — Controlled Danger
• 13. Macros — Code That Writes Code
• 14. Testing and Benchmarking Patterns
• 15. Crate Architecture and API Design
• 16. Async/Await Essentials
• 17. Exercises

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Appendices

• Summary and Reference Card
• Capstone Project: Type-Safe Task Scheduler