Rust is a compiled, multi-paradigm language created to deliver C/C++-level performance without notorious memory-safety pitfalls. By mandating ownership and borrowing rules at compile time, Rust eliminates whole classes of bugs (buffer overflows, data races, use-after-free) while still producing lean, native binaries. Nine consecutive years as Stack Overflow’s “most admired language” (83% in the 2024 survey) testify to developers’ enthusiasm for that trade-off. A Brief History 2006 – Mozilla engineer Graydon Hoare begins a side project to fix the crashes he saw in C/C++ software. 2009 – Mozilla formally sponsors the language to explore a safer browser engine. 2012 – Rust 0.1 released; compiler rewritten in Rust; ownership system solidifies. 2015 – Rust 1.0 ships with a backward-compatibility promise, sparking wider industry adoption. 2021 – Rust Foundation formed to steward the ecosystem beyond Mozilla. 2022 – Rust becomes the first high-level language accepted into the Linux kernel tre...
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