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Manning Publications · Author · 2025
Refactoring to Rust
A hands-on guide to bringing Rust into a codebase you already have, one component at a time. Instead of a risky full rewrite, you learn to find the parts of a system where Rust’s performance and safety guarantees pay off most, and to integrate them cleanly with the code around them.
The result is a practical migration path: measurable wins on the pieces that matter, without betting the roadmap on a rewrite.
What you'll learn
- Where Rust earns its place in an existing system — and where it doesn't
- Calling Rust from other languages across a stable FFI boundary
- Porting hot paths for performance without changing behavior
- Using ownership and the type system to design out whole classes of bugs
- Testing and benchmarking a mixed-language codebase
- Rolling Rust out incrementally while the team keeps shipping