What is Rust? The Language That Makes Systems Programming Safe
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Discussion of the blog article What is Rust? The Language That Makes Systems Programming Safe.
Rust eliminates entire categories of bugs — null pointer dereferences, buffer overflows, data races, use-after-free — at compile time with no runtime overhead. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and the Linux kernel all use it for systems code.
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