This prevents occurrences of the dreaded TypeError: Cannot read property 'foo' of null runtime error (or language equivalent), instead promoting it to a compile time error you can resolve before a user ever sees it. Like Haskell and some other modern programming languages, Rust encodes this possibility using an optional type, and the compiler requires you to handle the None case. This means any value may be what it says or nothing, effectively creating a second possible type for every type. Many statically-typed languages have a large asterisk next to them: they allow for the concept of NULL. This isn’t to say that all static type systems are equivalent. Statically-typed languages allow for compiler-checked constraints on the data and its behavior, alleviating cognitive overhead and misunderstandings. You only need to look at the rise of languages like TypeScript or features like Python’s type hints as people have become frustrated with the current state of dynamic typing in today’s larger codebases. The arguments between programmers who prefer dynamic versus static type systems are likely to endure for decades more, but it’s hard to argue about the benefits of static types. It’s not all roses in Rust-land, so I talk about the downsides, too. I’ll show a sample of what Rust offers to users of other programming languages and what the current ecosystem looks like. The short answer is that Rust solves pain points present in many other languages, providing a solid step forward with a limited number of downsides. However, the roughly 97% of survey respondents who haven’t used Rust may wonder, “What’s the deal with Rust?” The book is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.Rust has been Stack Overflow’s most loved language for four years in a row, indicating that many of those who have had the opportunity to use Rust have fallen in love with it. Only a basic knowledge of programming is required, preferably in C or C++ language. This book is intended for newcomers to Rust. This book digs into all the gritty details so coders can write correct unsafe Rust programs. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the MIT license. The author intends to cover, primarily, the differences between Rust and C++ to get you writing Rust programs quickly without lots of fluff you may know. This tutorial is intended for programmers who already know how pointers and references work and are used to systems programming concepts such as integer widths and memory management. The book is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the MIT license.
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Rust by Example is a collection of code examples that illustrate various Rust concepts and standard libraries. The primary reference for the Rust programming language is contained in a separate book. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the MIT license, at your option. The second edition is a rewrite that will be printed by NoStarch Press, available around October 2017. It’s a comprehensive resource for all topics related to Rust, and is the primary official document of the language.
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Rust is ideal for systems, embedded, and other performance critical code. The language enables developers to write programs with the performance and control of a low-level language, but with the powerful abstractions of a high-level language.
It accomplishes these goals by being memory safe without using garbage collection. Rust is a systems programming language that runs fast, prevents segmentation faults, and guarantees thread safety.
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