Rust

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Rust is a modern, general-purpose programming language that emphasizes performance, type safety, and concurrency. It was designed to provide a safer alternative to languages like C and C++, focusing on memory safety without the need for a garbage collector. Rust achieves this through its unique ownership model and borrowing system, which track object lifetimes at compile time to prevent memory-related bugs and data races. This makes Rust particularly suitable for systems programming, where reliability and efficiency are crucial. Rust is statically typed, compiling to native code for high performance, and supports both functional and object-oriented programming paradigms. Its tooling includes Cargo, a robust package manager, and a growing ecosystem of libraries. Rust is cross-platform, allowing developers to build applications that run on various operating systems. Its applications range from embedded systems and IoT devices to web services and high-performance computing. Companies like Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft have adopted Rust for its reliability and efficiency, contributing to its increasing popularity among developers.