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Everything about Rust (programming language)

General-purpose programming language

Rust is a general-purpose programming language that emphasizes performance, type safety, concurrency, and memory safety. Rust supports multiple programming paradigms. It was influenced by ideas from functional programming, including immutability, higher-order functions, algebraic data types, and pattern matching. Rust also provides structs, enums, traits, and methods as alternatives to traditional object-oriented programming, without relying on classes or inheritance. Rust enforces memory safety without a conventional garbage collector; instead, memory safety errors and data races are prevented by the borrow checker, which tracks the object lifetime of references at compile time. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Rust (programming language)A 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Increasing the performance of a high-load text vectorization service using the Rust programming languageInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The Rust Programming LanguageThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: RustBelt: securing the foundations of the Rust programming languageCited 314 times
  5. Go sideways: Rust syntaxA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: MonomorphizationA closely related topic

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  1. History
  2. Syntax and features
  3. Safety
  4. Ecosystem
  5. Performance
  6. Adoption
  7. Reception
  8. In academic research
  9. Community

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🆕 Influential since 2022

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