Rust - A Programming Language Similar To C++ That Focuses On Being Secure.

 

    Rust Language is a multi-paradigm programming language with an emphasis on productivity and safety, particularly safety of concurrent execution. Rust is a statically-typed, low-level, multi-paradigm programming language focused on safety and performance. Rust is a statically-typed programming language that has a memory-efficient architecture and is compliant with C/C++. It combines the productivity and resource efficiency of systems programming languages such as C, and memory safety of languages such as Java. [Sources: 5, 6, 9, 12] 

    

Rust has memory efficiency and speed that are comparable to C/C++, and memory safety that is better than in garbage-collection languages such as Java and Go. Rust languages are similar syntactically to C++, and they offer memory safety without using garbage collection, but rather using the borrow checker system. Rust is low-level language, suited for systems, embedded, and other high-performance code. With direct access to hardware and memory, Rust is the perfect language for embedded and bare-metal development. [Sources: 3, 4, 5, 8] 

    

Even Microsoft uses Rust for building security-critical, secure software components. You can use Rust to write software for IoT devices such as home automation hubs, smart security systems, etc. Mozilla, which continues to sponsor the project, says programmers can use Rust to build software less susceptible to bugs and attacks. Rust language provides many features such as focusing on speed, memory safety, and concurrency, as well as being open-source, we can create a broad variety of new software applications using Rust, like gaming engines, operating systems, file systems, browser components, and VR simulation engines. [Sources: 1, 2, 5]

    

Rust offers performance like C and C++, but without any pitfalls which developers need to be aware and take into consideration while working. The Rust language achieves the goals of providing a safe, concurrent, practical systems language, in ways other languages cannot, and doing so in ways that add value to how developers already work. The purpose of the Rust language is to allow for fast, efficient, memory-safe systems programming; simplicity has never been touted as one of its design principles. Rust was intended as a highly concurrent, highly secure systems language, as well as for programming at scale, i.e., creating and maintaining boundaries that maintain integrity across a larger system. [Sources: 0, 3, 7, 11] 

    

Using no runtime environment or garbage collector, Rust is a programming language capable of executing various productivity services, integrates with other languages, and runs on embedded devices. Binding to C libraries allows the language to access C-language APIs, thereby improving its ownership system and guaranteeing memory safety. [Sources: 10] 

    

Rusts memory safety is probably a major reason behind Rusts growing interest. Then there is the memory security problem, which Microsoft is exploring using Rust in order to solve the problem with the systems programming language codebase, which is expected to be around forever. Rust concepts are also being used in Microsofts recently opened-source Project Verona, an experimental safe-infrastructure programming language that may help Microsoft safely maintain its C and C# legacy code. [Sources: 0, 2] 

    

    

        

    

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[0]: https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/why-you-should-learn-rust

    

[1]: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/rust-getting-started-with-the-most-loved-programming-language/

    

[2]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/developers-love-rust-programming-language-heres-why/

    

[3]: https://thenewstack.io/safer-future-rust/

    

[4]: https://developer.okta.com/blog/2022/03/18/programming-security-and-why-rust

    

[5]: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/which-is-faster-rust-or-c-lets-find-out-who-is-the-usain-bolt-87495c774c8

    

[6]: https://www.bmc.com/blogs/python-vs-rust/

    

[7]: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3218074/what-is-rust-safe-fast-and-easy-software-development.html

    

[8]: https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/01/20/what-is-rust-and-why-is-it-so-popular/

    

[9]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/sustainability-with-rust/

    

[10]: https://litslink.com/blog/what-is-rust-programming-language

    

[11]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)

    

[12]: https://serokell.io/blog/rust-guide