Introduction to Rust (Part I)

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Rust is a multi-paradigm programming language designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency. Rust is syntactically similar to C++ but can guarantee memory safety by using a borrow checker to validate references. Rust achieves memory safety without garbage collection, and reference counting is optional.

Rust was originally designed by Graydon Hoare at Mozilla Research, with contributions from Dave Herman, Brendan Eich, and others. The designers refined the language while writing the Servo layout or browser engine, and the Rust compiler. It has gained increasing use in industry, and Microsoft has been experimenting with the language for secure and safety-critical software components.

Rust has been voted the "most loved programming language" in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey every year since 2016.

🕰 Timeline

00:00 - Holding screen

00:30 - Introductions
03:00 - Why Rust?
09:20 - Variables
28:20 - Functions
39:45 - Strings
56:00 - Structs

🌎 Resources

Steve Klabnik - https://twitter.com/steveklabnik
Rustlings - https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings