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Rust — Getting Started With The Most Loved Programming Language

Rust has been voted Stack Overflow’s most loved language for five years in a row. This article will tell you why Rust is awesome.

Manish Shivanandhan
6 min readAug 20, 2020

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Rust is a systems programming language that you can use to write applications with high performance. Rust is being used by some of the top companies like Dropbox and Cloudflare to deliver speed and concurrency to their customers.

For the last five years in a row, Rust has been voted as the most loved programming language. But chances are, you might not have worked with Rust. Or worse, you might not have heard it before.

Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey — 2020

Why Rust?

Let’s look at why a developer would choose Rust.

Typical programming languages like Python and C++ abstract a lot of details from developers. If you are a junior developer working on a simple web application, this might not an issue. You just want to find a solution to a problem.

For large scale applications that millions of users will use on a daily basis, the…

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Manish Shivanandhan

Engineer / Product Manager. Writes about Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Product Management. More at manishmshiva.com