Rust has been voted Stack Overflow’s most loved programming language for five years in a row. This article will tell you why Rust is awesome.

Rust is a systems programming language that you can use to write applications with high performance. Rust is used by some of the top tech companies like Dropbox and Cloudflare to deliver speed and concurrency to their customers.

For the last five years in a row, Rust has been voted as the most loved programming language.

But chances are, you might not have worked with Rust. Or worse, you might not have heard of it before. So let’s learn more about it.

StackOverflow 2020 Survey

Why Rust?

Let’s look at why a developer would choose Rust.

Typical programming languages like Python and C++ abstract a lot of details away from developers.

If you are a junior developer working on a simple web application, this might not an issue. You just want to find a solution to a problem.

For large scale applications that millions of users will use on a daily basis, the ‘problem-solving’ approach will not work. More users consume more system resources. And more resources mean bigger bills for your company.

This is where Rust shines. Rust combines ease of programming with access to core system configurations. Rust is built with memory-safety, concurrency, and security from the ground up.

Rust is a “systems programming language that focuses on speed, memory safety, and parallelism”.

Rust is also considered to be a great alternative for C++. Rust offers high performance in addition to helping you eliminate common bugs caused by languages like C++.

Now that you know what Rust can do for you, let’s look at Rust in detail.

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