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Rust is an in-development programming language developed by Mozilla Research.
It is relatively unique among systems languages in that it can assert memory
safety *at compile time* without resorting to garbage collection. Rust’s first
release, 0.1, occurred in January 2012, and development moves so quickly that at
the moment the use of stable releases is discouraged, and instead one should use
nightly builds. On January 9 2015, Rust 1.0 Alpha was released, and the rate of
changes to the Rust compiler that break existing code has dropped significantly
since. However, a complete guarantee of backward compatibility will not exist
until the final 1.0 release.
Rust combines low-level control over performance with high-level convenience and
safety guarantees.
It achieves these goals without requiring a garbage collector or runtime, making
it possible to use Rust libraries as a "drop-in replacement" for C.
Rust’s first release, 0.1, occurred in January 2012, and for 3 years development
moved so quickly that until recently the use of stable releases was discouraged
and instead the general advise was to use nightly builds.
On May 15th 2015, Rust 1.0 was released with a complete guarantee of backward
compatibility. Improvements to compile times and other aspects of the compiler are
currently available in the nightly builds. Rust has adopted a train-based release
model with regular releases every six weeks. Rust 1.1 beta was made available at
the same time of the release of Rust 1.0.
Although Rust is a relatively low-level language, Rust has some functional
concepts that are generally found in higher-level languages. This makes