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Despite having a steep learning curve, the programming language offers speed and safety.
First created in 2006 by Graydon Hoare as a side project while working at browser-developer Mozilla, headquartered in Mountain View, California, Rust blends the performance of languages such as C++ with friendlier syntax, a focus on code safety and a well-engineered set of tools that simplify development.
Portions of Mozilla’s Firefox browser are written in Rust, and developers at Microsoft are reportedly using it to recode parts of the Windows operating system.
The annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey, which this year polled nearly 65,000 programmers, has ranked Rust as the “most loved” programming language for 5 years running. The code-sharing site GitHub says Rust was the second-fastest-growing language on the platform in 2019, up 235% from the previous year.
read more at https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03382-2
I love Rust! Its fast and allows me to do the large scale number crunching I need to analyze clinical datasets against. But it takes time to learn and after a couple years of using it I still find myself not smooth at it.
Its a compiler driven language like C/C++
But it has a stricter, protective set of rules like interpreter driven languages aka python, JavaScript to ensure crashes are avoided by not letting problematic code compile.