Rust up

Introduction

In the track of the series of articles, I will be putting out here what I have learned personally and how best to explain it to myself.

Rust is one very language I fell in love with in late 2021 and ever since I have been wanting to learn and build some cool projects with it.

The time is now as I will be committing myself to doing more of this and learning along the road. It will be an honor for any reader checking into this to study and build along with me.

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What is Rust

Rust is a programming language that is designed to be fast, safe, and concurrent. It is a statically-typed language, which means that you have to specify the types of variables when you declare them, and the type checker will make sure that you use those variables correctly. Rust also has a strong emphasis on ownership and borrowing, which are mechanisms that the Rust compiler uses to ensure memory safety and prevent data races (a type of concurrency bug). These features make Rust a good choice for writing low-level code, such as operating systems, device drivers, and games, but it can also be used to build high-level applications.

Why Rust

Rust is a special programming language because it combines several features that are not often found together in other languages. Some of the things that make Rust unique are:

1. Safety: Rust has a strong emphasis on safety and prevents many types of common programming errors, such as null or dangling pointer references, buffer overflows, and data races.

2. Performance: Rust is a compiled language and produces efficient machine code that is on par with C and C++.

3. Concurrency: Rust has built-in support for concurrent programming, with features like threads and a strong emphasis on ownership and borrowing to prevent data races.

4. Syntax: Rust has a clean and expressive syntax that is easy to read and write. It also has a number of advanced language features, such as pattern matching and trait-based generics, that make it a powerful tool for a wide range of programming tasks.

5. Community: Rust has a friendly and welcoming community of developers who are passionate about the language and its future.

At this, it's a bid to get a greater start on using rust.

LET'S GO 🚀