An Introduction To Rust

Let’s take a look at Rust. The most-loved language, according to StackOverflow’s yearly developer survey that not enough people seem to use professionally.

What Is Rust?

Rust is a systems programming language that is compiled to binary. It has no runtime and instead uses a concept called “borrow checking”. Developers don’t need to explicitly free memory, the compiler does it for them.

The language itself is multi-paradigm, offering functional, generic, imperative, structured, and concurrent programming with a huge emphasis on performance, memory safety, and developer productivity.

Who Uses Rust?

There are actually quite a few companies now that successfully use Rust in production.

This includes

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Microsoft
• npm
• Dropbox
• yelp
• Mozilla
• Atlassian
• CoreOS
• Coursera

and many more.

Some Core Features Of Rust

• Compilation to binary
• Memory-safety
• Performance