Programming languages come and go; while some create hype, some just vanish away. We all know it is tough to penetrate the developers’ core area and influence them, and when it comes to programming languages, they are very picky. Well, Rust as a programming language is doing everything it can to win the hearts of developers.

Rust has been Stack Overflow’s most loved language for four consecutive years in a row, and this indicates that whoever has had the opportunity to work with this language fell in love and liked it immediately.

Plus, with popular DevOps tools like JFrog Artifactory now adding support for Rust out of the box, it’s exciting to see Rust enter the mainstream for many development shops. With this, let’s take a look at why it’s gotten so popular.

Introduction to Rust

Introduced in 2010, Rust was created at Mozilla Research as a more reliable, safer alternative to C++. Rust is a static multiparadigm, memory-efficient programming language, focused on speed, security, and performance. It is used to develop game engines, file systems, websites and tools, operating systems, browser components, and much more. Rust Foundation, an independent organization, now manages the open source code base.

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