What is Rust Programming

Rust is a systems programming language sponsored by Mozilla Research, which describes it as a "safe, concurrent, practical language", supporting functional and imperative-procedural paradigms. Rust is syntactically similar to C++, but its designers intend it to provide better memory safety whilst maintaining performance.

Rust is an open source programming language. Its designers have refined the language through the experiences of writing the Servo web browser layout engine and the Rust compiler. A large portion of current commits to the project are from community members.

Rust won first place for "most loved programming language" in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey in 2016 and 2017, it is referenced in The Book of Mozilla as "oxidised metal".

Rust is an open source systems programming language that focuses on speed, memory safety and parallelism. Mozilla sponsors the work of the Rust community.

A systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.

Other projects developed in Rust include:

Web browser oriented:

• Firefox

o Servo – Mozilla's new parallel web browser engine developed in collaboration with Samsung

o Quantum – a project, composed of several sub-projects, to improve the Gecko web browser engine of Firefox, developed by Mozilla

Build tool oriented:

• Cargo – Rust's build automation system

• Habitat – a build and deployment tool from Chef Software

Operating system oriented:

• Magic Pocket – Dropbox's file system that powers their Diskotech petabyte storage machines

• Redox – a microkernel operating system

• Stratis - a file system planned for Fedora 28

• Tock - an embedded operating system

• Railcar – a container runtime by Oracle

Other projects:

• Exonum - an extensible open-source framework for building secure permissioned blockchain applications

• CITA - a fast and scalable permissioned blockchain for production

• OpenDNS – used in two of its components

• Piston – a game engine

• Amethyst – a data-oriented, data-driven game engine

• OnePush – a notification delivery system developed by OneSignal

• REmacs – a port of Emacs to Rust

• MAIDsafe – a P2P Internet project currently being developed by a team in Troon, Scotland

• Lucidscape Mesh – a distributed real-time simulation engine for virtual reality

• Tor – an anonymity network – is experimenting with porting to Rust for its security features. (Tor is currently written in C.)

• Pijul – a distributed version control system inspired by Darcs

• Rustation - a PlayStation emulator

• Parity - a Ethereum web browser and wallet management application

• 'Spellbound' - an unnamed video game by Chucklefish

• TiKV - a distributed storage engine for TiDB, a distributed hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) database

• Xi - a free modern text editor from Google Open Source

• Grin - Grin is an open source distributed ledger cryptocurrency software project that implements a MimbleWimble Blockchain