Chapter 9: Structs in Rust

Structs are a fundamental part of Rust's type system, allowing you to create complex data types that group together related values. They are similar to structs in C but offer additional features and safety guarantees. Structs are commonly used to model real-world entities and represent data with multiple related components (structures).

In this chapter, we'll explore:

• Defining structs
• Instantiating and using structs
• Field initialization and access
• Struct update syntax
• Tuple structs
• Unit-like structs
• Methods and associated functions
• The impl block
• The self parameter
• Getters and setters
• Structs and ownership
• Structs with references and lifetimes
• Generic structs
• Comparing Rust structs with OOP concepts
• Derived traits