Outline of the Rust programming language

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to Rust

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Rust:

Rust is a multi-paradigm programming language emphasizing performance, memory safety, and concurrency. Rust was initially developed by Graydon Hoare starting in 2006, later sponsored and maintained by Mozilla Research starting in 2009, and first publicly released in 2010, with version 1.0 released in 2015. Rust is syntactically similar to C++ but guarantees memory safety without requiring a garbage collector.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

What type of language is Rust?

Programming language – artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a computer
Compiled language – implemented through compilers rather than interpreters^[5]
General-purpose programming language
Multi-paradigm programming language – supports functional programming, imperative programming, concurrent programming.
Statically typed programming language – type checking performed at compile time^[6]
Systems programming language – designed for low-level programming and operating system development^[7]
Memory-safe language – prevents common undefined behavior like dangling pointers and buffer overflows^[8]

History of Rust

Graydon Hoare – creator of Rust starting in 2006^[9]
Mozilla – original sponsor and maintainer of Rust starting in 2009
Cargo – introduced as Rust’s official package manager and build system in 2014
Rust Foundation – current steward of the Rust project since its inception in 2021

General Rust concepts

Asynchronous I/O^[10]
Arrays and vectors
Borrow checker^[11]
Closures^[12]
Concurrency^[13]
Crates and modules^[14]^[15]
Enums in Rust^[16]^[17]
Error handling^[18]
Functions^[19]
Generics^[20]
If statements and booleans^[21]
Iterators^[22]
Lifetimes
Macros^[23]
Memory management^[24]
Ownership^[25]
Pattern matching^[26]
Serialization^[27]
Smart pointers^[28]
Strings^[29]
Tuples and structs^[30]
Traits^[31]
Type inference^[32]
Unit testing^[33]
Variables^[34]^[35]

Issues / Limitations

Compile time performance^[36]
Ecosystem maturity

Rust toolchain

Compilers

rustc – official Rust compiler
LLVM – Rust backend uses LLVM for code generation
mrustc – alternative Rust compiler written in C++^[37]
Cranelift – JIT compiler backend used in Wasmtime^[38]^[39]

Build and package management

Cargo – build system and package manager^[40]
Crates.io – official Rust package registry^[41]

Rust libraries and frameworks

Rocket – web framework focused on type safety^[42]
Serde – framework for serialization and deserialization supporting JSON, YAML, TOML, and more.^[43]
Tokio – asynchronous runtime for Rust^[44]

Testing and benchmarking

Criterion.rs – benchmarking library^[45]^[46]
Built-in unit testing with Cargo^[47]

Notable projects written in Rust

Firefox (partial, via components)
Alacritty
Deno
TiKV

Example source code

Rust publications

Books about Rust

The Rust Programming Language – Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols
The Secrets of Rust: Tools – Bitfield Consulting
Effective Rust – David Drysdale
Rust for Rustaceans – Jon Gjengset
Programming Rust – Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, and Leonora Tindall
Rust in Action – Tim McNamara
Zero to Production in Rust – Luca Palmieri^[48]

Rust dialects and related languages

Dyon – rusty dynamically typed scripting language^[49]
Fe – inspired by Rust, smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain^[50]
Move – originally developed for the Diem blockchain^[51]
Sway – Rust-based language for smart contracts^[52]

Rust learning resources

Competitive programming

LeetCode – supports Rust submissions
HackerRank – includes Rust challenges
Codeforces – supports Rust in contests

External links

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[1] ttps://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1067869/rust-worlds-fastest-growing-programming-language/

[2] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/

[3] ttps://www.geeksforgeeks.org/rust/introduction-to-rust-programming-language/

[4] ttps://stanford-cs242.github.io/f18/lectures/05-1-rust-memory-safety.html

[5] ttps://medium.com/journey-to-rust/my-first-insight-into-rust-type-system-601cdfd0b81f

[6] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/scope/lifetime/static_lifetime.html#static

[7] ttps://medium.com/@autognosi/rust-core-key-concepts-for-getting-started-b827b90d4902

[8] ttps://www.infoworld.com/article/2336661/rust-memory-safety-explained.html

[9] ttps://thenewstack.io/graydon-hoare-remembers-the-early-days-of-rust/

[10] ttps://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/

[11] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/1.8.0/book/references-and-borrowing.html

[12] ttps://rustwiki.org/en/book/ch13-01-closures.html

[13] ttps://web.mit.edu/rust-lang_v1.25/arch/amd64_ubuntu1404/share/doc/rust/html/book/first-edition/concurrency.html

[14] ttps://web.mit.edu/rust-lang_v1.25/arch/amd64_ubuntu1404/share/doc/rust/html/book/first-edition/crates-and-modules.html

[15] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/crates.html

[16] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/custom_types/enum.html

[17] ttps://www.geeksforgeeks.org/rust/rust-enum/

[18] ttps://web.mit.edu/rust-lang_v1.25/arch/amd64_ubuntu1404/share/doc/rust/html/book/first-edition/error-handling.html

[19] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-03-how-functions-work.html

[20] ttps://rustwiki.org/en/book/ch10-01-syntax.html

[21] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-05-control-flow.html

[22] ttps://web.mit.edu/rust-lang_v1.25/arch/amd64_ubuntu1404/share/doc/rust/html/book/first-edition/iterators.html

[23] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch20-05-macros.html

[24] ttps://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/memory-management.html

[25] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch04-01-what-is-ownership.html

[26] ttps://www.programiz.com/rust/pattern-matching

[27] ttps://docs.rs/serde/latest/serde/trait.Serialize.html

[28] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-00-smart-pointers.html

[29] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/std/str.html

[30] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch05-01-defining-structs.html

[31] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch10-02-traits.html

[32] ttps://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/type-inference.html

[33] ttps://rustwiki.org/en/rust-by-example/testing/unit_testing.html

[34] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-01-variables-and-mutability.html

[35] ttps://www.geeksforgeeks.org/rust/variables-in-rust/

[36] ttps://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/compile-times.html

[37] ttps://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

[38] ttps://cranelift.dev/

[39] ttps://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift

[40] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/

[41] ttps://crates.io/

[42] ttps://rocket.rs/

[43] ttps://serde.rs/

[44] ttps://tokio.rs/

[45] ttps://github.com/bheisler/criterion.rs

[46] ttps://docs.rs/criterion/latest/criterion/

[47] ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/guide/tests.html

[48] ttps://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/best-rust-books

[49] ttps://github.com/PistonDevelopers/dyon

[50] ttps://fe-lang.org

[51] ttps://move-language.github.io/move/

[52] ttps://fuellabs.github.io/sway/v0.69.5/book/#the-sway-programming-language

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