Rust
Rust is a multi-paradigm systems programming language designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency. It achieves memory safety without garbage collection through its unique ownership system and borrow checker, preventing common bugs like null pointer dereferences and data…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2006
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Rust was created to solve the long-standing dilemma in systems programming: how to achieve both high performance, comparable to C/C++, and memory safety, typically found in garbage-collected languages, while also enabling fearless concurrency without data races. It aimed to eliminate entire classes of bugs (e.g., buffer overflows, use-after-free, concurrent data races) that plagued C/C++ development.
- Platforms
- Windows, Solaris, macOS, WebAssembly, FreeBSD, Android, Linux, Embedded Systems (microcontrollers), iOS, Various other architectures (ARM, RISC-V, PowerPC, etc.)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Figma
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Discord
- Meta (Facebook)
- Cloudflare
- Brave
- Microsoft
- Dropbox
- Mozilla (originator)