Rust is a programming language that focuses on memory safety and preventing data races. It provides memory safety without garbage collection by using a borrow checker to validate references. Rust also aims to prevent data races through its ownership and borrowing model. The language has gained popularity due to its performance, safety, and tools like Cargo. Rust is well suited for systems programming tasks like developing servers, browsers, and package managers where safety and control over memory is important.

1. WHEN TO RUST
A discussion about the rust programming language
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2. WHAT WE WILL TALK ABOUT
Brief history of rust
Strengths of rust
When to use rust
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3. HISTORY
2006 personal project
Probably named a er fungus (author doesn't
remember)
Mozilla sponsored in 2009
1.0 in 2012
Sponsored for servo, made for safety
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4. STRENGTHS
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5. SAFETY
Memory safe
Data race safe
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6. MEMORY SAFETY
Doesn't memory leak( )
No use a er free
No buffer overflow
No double free
No null derefrencing
example: , ,
sort of...
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7. DATA RACE SAFETY
Mutable shared state only accessable by one thread
at a time
Doesn't prevent deadlocks or double access
problems (not perfect)
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8. GREAT TOOLS
Cargo - Package manager
Clippy - Code linting
rustfmt - Code formatting
rls + racer - IDE hints (code completion, refactoring)
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9. GREAT DOCUMENTATION
Intro book
API docs
Rustonomicon (dark arts)
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10. STABILITY
Crater - Test future compiler changes against the
current ecosystem
Nightly, Beta, Stable releases
Stability as a Deliverable
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11. MOVES FAST
Open RFC process allows new features to come from
6 week releases allows features to flow into the
language quickly
Stability guarentees keeps new features from
breaking old code
anywhere
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12. RUST, HUH, WHAT IS IT GOOD
FOR
(ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING)
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13. BROWSERS!
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14. WEB SERVERS!
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15. PACKAGE MANAGERS
SERVERS!
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16. ANYWHERE!
Rust is young and powerful
For predictability, it can't be beat!
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17. QUESTIONS?
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