Rust System Programming: Build Secure, Concurrent, and Efficient System Software is a complete guide for software engineers, embedded developers, and systems architects who want to master low-level development using the power of Rust. Whether you're building firmware, writing high-performance utilities, or interfacing directly with hardware, this book will show you how to do it right-without compromising safety, performance, or maintainability.
Rust is uniquely positioned to replace legacy systems languages like C and C++ by offering modern language features, zero-cost abstractions, and built-in memory safety without a garbage collector. This book bridges the gap between theory and practice by walking you through the real-world design, implementation, optimization, and deployment of systems software-all written in Rust.
You'll start with foundational topics like memory management without a garbage collector, stack vs. heap allocation, and pointer safety using Rust's ownership model. From there, you'll dive into hardware interaction, embedded development with no_std, efficient concurrency, and building complete asynchronous utilities. Each chapter is hands-on and full of working code examples, practical exercises, and proven techniques used in professional embedded and systems development.
You will learn how to:
Understand and control memory layout, lifetimes, and unsafe code responsibly
Build drivers, firmware, and real-time embedded applications using no_std
Use concurrency primitives like threads, channels, atomics, and async I/O
Interface with filesystems, processes, and system calls
Optimize for size, speed, and power consumption
Debug, audit, test, and maintain production-grade Rust systems
By the end, you'll have built a complete systems utility and will be ready to tackle everything from microcontrollers to backend services-confidently and safely, with Rust.
Whether you're porting legacy systems, building safety-critical applications, or starting fresh with embedded or backend development-this book will show you how to do it all with precision and confidence.
Take control of your systems programming. Master Rust. Get your copy today.
