Rust programming language
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 programming errors like null pointer…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2006
- Category
- programming_language
- Problem solved
- Rust was created to solve the persistent problem of balancing performance and control (characteristic of C/C++) with memory safety and concurrency safety (characteristic of garbage-collected languages like Java or Go). It eliminates entire classes of bugs—like data races, buffer overflows, and use-after-free errors—at compile time, offering the performance of low-level languages without the traditional associated risks.
- Platforms
- Android, iOS, BSD, WebAssembly, Linux, bare metal, macOS, various embedded targets (ARM, RISC-V), Windows
Related technologies
Notable users
- Amazon (AWS)
- Discord
- npm
- Google (Android, Fuchsia)
- Microsoft (Azure, Windows)
- Cloudflare
- Dropbox
- Meta (Facebook, Instagram)
- Mozilla
- Brave