Rust 01: Introduction to Rust

Highlights

• SAFE concurrency
• performance: as fast as C++ for most things
• (memory) safety: control of memory layout
• syntactically similar to C++
• self-hosting compiler i.g. rustc that uses LLVM
• https://www.rust-lang.org/

Hello World

fn main() {
    println!("Hello World!");
}

and other examples

Projects

• Firefox’s web engine such as Servo (experimental) and Quantum
• Discord: Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
• OS development tutorials in Rust on Raspberry Pi