Overview of and topical guide to Rust
The followingoutline is provided as an overview of and topical guide toRust:
Rust is amulti-paradigm programming language emphasizingperformance,memory safety, andconcurrency. Rust was initially developed by Graydon Hoare starting in 2006, later sponsored and maintained byMozilla Research starting in 2009, and first publicly released in 2010, with version 1.0 released in 2015. Rust issyntactically similar toC++ but guaranteesmemory safety without requiring agarbage collector.[1][2][3][4]
Whattype of language is Rust?
[edit]- Graydon Hoare – creator of Rust starting in 2006[9]
- Mozilla – original sponsor and maintainer of Rust starting in 2009
- Cargo (software) – introduced as Rust’s officialpackage manager and build system in 2014
- Rust Foundation – current steward of the Rust project since its inception in 2021
General Rust concepts
[edit]Issues / Limitations
[edit]- rustc – official Rust compiler
- LLVM – Rust backend uses LLVM for code generation
- mrustc – alternative Rust compiler written in C++[37]
- Cranelift –JIT compiler backend used in Wasmtime[38][39]
Build and package management
[edit]Rust libraries and frameworks
[edit]Testing and benchmarking
[edit]Notable projects written in Rust
[edit]Example source code
[edit]- The Rust Programming Language – Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols
- The Secrets of Rust: Tools – Bitfield Consulting
- Effective Rust – David Drysdale
- Rust for Rustaceans – Jon Gjengset
- Programming Rust – Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, and Leonora Tindall
- Rust in Action – Tim McNamara
- Zero to Production in Rust – Luca Palmieri[48]
Rust dialects and related languages
[edit]Rust learning resources
[edit]Competitive programming
[edit]- Outlines of other programming languages
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