Rust is an open source, curly-brace, block-structured expression, general purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled language. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details.
Its design is oriented toward concerns of “programming in the large”, that is, of creating and maintaining boundaries – both abstract and operational – that preserve large-system integrity, availability and concurrency.
Rust supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure functional styles. Rust also supports generic programming and metaprogramming, in both static and dynamic styles.
Features include:
- Type – system static, nominal, linear, algebraic, locally inferred.
- Multi-paradigm: pure-functional, concurrent-actor, imperative-procedural, OO:
- First-class functions, cheap non-escaping closures.
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- Algebraic data types (called enums) with pattern matching.
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- Method implementations on any type.
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- Traits, which share aspects of type classes and interfaces.
- Memory safety – no null or dangling pointers, no buffer overflows, no use-before-initialize or use-after-move.
- Concurrency – lightweight tasks with message passing, no shared memory.
- Generics – type parameterization with type classes.
- Exception handling – unrecoverable unwinding with task isolation: task failure / unwinding, trapping, RAII / dtors.
- Memory model – optional task-local GC, safe pointer types with region analysis.
- Compilation model – ahead-of-time, C/C++ compatible.
- Lightweight tasks (coroutines) with expanding stacks.
- Fast asynchronous, copyless message passing.
- Optional garbage collected pointers.
- All types may be explicitly allocated on the stack or interior to other types.
- Static, native compilation using LLVM.
- Direct and simple interface to C code.
- Works with existing native toolchains, GDB, Valgrind, Instruments, etc.
- Multi-platform.
Website: www.rust-lang.org
Support: GitHub
Developer: Rust Project Developers
License: Apache License 2.0 or MIT License
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