What is C++?
Rust is a multi-paradigm type/memory/thread-safe language with near-bare-metal performance.
Per Simon Peyton Jones, it sits right in that sweet spot of both being safe, fast and useful[citation needed] while supporting a myriad of paradigms, most notably OO and functional.
- Per-binding ownership and lifetimes.
- Reference counting by default to guarantee memory and thread-safety in one blow without any garbage-collection.
- Impeccable and standard tooling using
cargo, with package management and building. - A rich type-system borrowed from haskell with compile-time checkable generics and polymorhpism using traits on types and methods.
- Stable ABI, but rapid development (new release every 6 weeks!).
There's the official book, The Rust Programming Language, an awesome-rust page and this here repo you've somehow landed on.
Install rust either using the binaries provided in your Operating System or use rustup to manage multiple toolchains (think conda).
If using rustup and in Linux:
$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
$ rustup update
Testing the install:
$ rustc --version
Rust ships with cargo, so on to running some rust code.
Each directory in the repo root is a cargo project (created using cargo new <project>). Just move into one and cargo run to build and run a debug target of the lesson.
Benefit?