RUST

Rust programming language is open source and has been the “most loved language” on developer community Stack Overflow’s annual survey for the last four years.

Rust was created to ensure high performance similar to that offered by C and C++, but with emphasis on code safety, the lack of which is the Achilles heel of these two languages.

Types of Rust coding

Rust treats values by breaking them down into “types” in order to handle the data appropriately. According to MIT’s guide to Rust, there are a number of types that can be split into scalar or integer types. Scalar types will likely be familiar to those who work with other programming languages: characters, Booleans, floating-point numbers and integers. They all represent a single value. Compound types are what they sound like — multiple types together.

Rust’s key principles

• Strictly enforcing safe borrowing of data
• Functions, methods, and closures to operate on data
• Tuples, structs, and enums to aggregate data
• Pattern matching to select and destructure data
• Traits to define behavior on data.

Why use Rust?

To sum up, the main reasons for embracing Rust in your next software project include:

• High performance while ensuring memory safety.
• Support for concurrent programming.
• The growing number of Rust packages at crates.io repository.
• A vibrant community driving the development of the language.
• Backwards compatibility and stability ensured (Rust has been designed for the next 40 years).

Rust vs. C++

• Rust is positioned as a system-level language with certain useful innovations, such as error-proof detailed memory management and zero-cost abstractions that equalize the speed of a low-level code and a code using the abstractions.
• Data races prevention during compile-time: Rust ensures better concurrency management thanks to its data ownership system.
• It has no dangling pointers or null pointers.
• Rust spots “bugs” in the code even before programmers begin testing it: Rust allows you to build programs that get their code validity-tested at compile-time.
• Rust has built-in support for multi-threading.
• Rust allows developers to switch to “unsafe code” when needed to sacrifice safety to higher performance, but its default mode is adherence to safe code. At the same time, unsafe type of code is the default way of working in C++.

What Is Rust Used For?

• Programming: Rust can be used for general programming projects since it is an open source system language. This covers anything from website development to critical enterprise application development. You can use Rust to write third-party applications for a wide range of operating systems.
• Game Development: Using a game engine like Piston or Amethyst Engine, you can use Rust as the primary systems language to create a complete game. Its memory management is efficient and fast. Since it is statistically similar to C++, Rust makes a good addition to a game developer’s knowledge base.
• Web Development: Rust is an ideal programming language for full stack web development. There are several online websites that are written in Rust language and compiled in WASM for web-based applications. However, some programmers argue that Rust is more ideal for the backend development of critical applications.
• Data Science Backend: While Rust is not as popular as Python and R for data science, it can be used to build backend systems for data science and data analytic tools. The safety and enhanced performance features make it an excellent tool for data security, low-level code optimization, and data parallelization.
• Virtual Reality: Rust can be used to create VR components if you have access to the right frameworks and libraries. It can be a simple VR game, VR application for real estate, or VR learning application. You can also use Rust to design simulation engines for virtual reality.

Top Apps Built With Rust

• Amazon
• Microsoft
• Corporation
• Facebook
• Dropbox
• Mozilla
• Cloudflare
• Coursera
• Discord
• Figma