Ready for Rust • Erik Doernenburg • YOW! 2019

Security

Discover the unique features and benefits of Rust, a systems programming language that prioritizes memory safety and concurrency, with a focus on expressiveness, performance, and ease of use, as presented by Erik Doernenburg at YOW! 2019.

Key takeaways

Rust is designed to be a systems programming language that provides memory safety without the need for garbage collection.
Rust’s ownership model ensures that each value has a single owner that is responsible for its lifetime.
Immutable references can be shared among multiple owners, but mutable references can only be shared with one other owner at a time.
Rust does not have a return keyword, and the result of the last expression in a block is the return value.
Rust’s syntax is concise and expressive, with a focus on avoiding unnecessary complexity.
The language is designed to be memory-safe and provides compile-time checking to prevent common errors such as null pointer dereferences.
Rust’s borrow checker enforces the ownership and borrowing rules, preventing data races and other memory safety issues.
The language is designed to be highly parallelizable, with built-in support for concurrency and parallelism.
Rust’s ownership model and borrowing system make it possible to write race-free, concurrent code without the need for locks or locks-free data structures.
Rust’s design provides a balance between convenience and safety, and its API is designed to be expressive and efficient.
Rust’s performance is comparable to that of C++ and other low-level languages, but without the need for manual memory management.
Rust’s IDEs and build tools, such as Cargo, are designed to simplify the development process and provide a high level of integration with the language.
Rust’s community is actively working on developing a wide range of libraries and frameworks, making it a viable option for a variety of applications.

Ready for Rust • Erik Doernenburg • YOW! 2019

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