Competencies: Programming Languages > Rust

Rust Fundamentals

Variables, data types, functions, control flow, modules, crates

Critical

Systems Developer, Backend Developer

Ownership & Borrowing

Ownership rules, references, lifetimes, borrow checker, memory safety

Critical

Systems Developer, Backend Developer

Structs & Enums

Struct definitions, impl blocks, enums with data, pattern matching, Option/Result

Critical

Systems Developer, Backend Developer

Error Handling

Result type, ? operator, custom errors, thiserror, anyhow crates

High

Systems Developer, Backend Developer

Traits & Generics

Trait definitions, trait bounds, associated types, generic functions/structs

Critical

Systems Developer, Backend Developer

Collections & Iterators

Vec, HashMap, iterator adaptors, collect, lazy evaluation, IntoIterator

High

Systems Developer, Backend Developer

Concurrency in Rust

Threads, channels, Mutex, Arc, Send/Sync traits, async/await with tokio

High

Systems Developer, Backend Developer

Cargo & Dependencies

Cargo.toml, workspaces, features, build scripts, crates.io publishing

High

Systems Developer, Backend Developer

Unsafe Rust

Unsafe blocks, raw pointers, FFI, when to use unsafe, safety contracts

Medium

Systems Developer, Security Engineer

Testing in Rust

Unit tests, integration tests, doc tests, cargo test, property testing

High

Systems Developer, Backend Developer

Macros

Declarative macros, procedural macros, derive macros, macro hygiene

Medium

Systems Developer, Backend Developer

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