Rust is a systems programming language focused on three goals: safety, speed, and concurrency. It maintains these goals without having a garbage collector, making it a useful language for a number of use cases other languages are not good at: embedding in other languages, programs with specific space and time requirements, and writing low-level code, like device drivers and operating systems. It improves on current languages targeting this space by having a number of compile-time safety checks that produce no runtime overhead, while eliminating all data races. Rust also aims to achieve "zero-cost abstractions", even though some of these abstractions feel like those of a high-level language. Even then, Rust still allows precise control like a low-level language would.
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| 1.78.0-160000.2.2 info | GA Release | 2025-07-02 | 16.0 |
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