Acknowledgments

This book would not have been possible without the patience, support, and love of my wife, Mel Wolverson.

Margaret Eldridge deserves special thanks for suggesting that I write this book. I was midway through creating Hands-on Rust when she approached me with this title. After a brief moment of shell-shock that a publisher would come to me, I accepted. Thanks are also due to all of the staff at PragProg—particularly Dave Rankin and Miki Tebeka—for letting me tweak the Brain Teasers genre a little for this title.

Thank you to Tammy Coron—the editor—for help and enthusiasm on this project. Tammy is an amazing editor, going above and beyond the call of duty by testing difficult code in the Rust Playground on top of keeping me focused and shepherding me through the publication process. I wouldn’t have finished the book without her help.

My parents—Robert Wolverson and Dawn McLaren—deserve a lot of gratitude. They sparked my love of computers at a young age, encouraging me to experiment and learn. They are both retired teachers and instilled in me a life-long love of learning and teaching.

Kent Froeschle and Stephen Turner, my colleagues at iZones, get a special “thank you” for their continual encouragement, work schedule flexibility, and patiently dealing with both a global pandemic and my writing schedule.

This book would not be what it is without the patient and thorough help of the tech reviewers: Jurgis Balciunas, Forest Anderson, Vladyslav Batyrenko, Bas Zalmstra, Remco Kuijper, Andy Lester, and countless beta-readers who submitted errata and questions. Thanks are also due to Steve Cotteril, for acting as a sounding-board throughout the creative process.