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Why Use Rust

Section titled “Why Use Rust”
  • Performance metrics
  • Memory safety
  • Different production usage
    • Cloud and desktop applications
    • Large technology company usage and support
    • Linux kernel
  • Programmer preference and productivity

Use Cases

Section titled “Use Cases”
  • Performance critical applications due to speed and memory efficiency and no garbage collection
  • Reduced security vulnerabilities due to memory safety
    • Example: operating systems, user facing systems
  • Other examples:
    • Command line applications
    • Application Programming Interfaces (API)
    • Distributed systems
    • Front end
      • WebAssembly
    • Systems:
      • Databases
      • Security
      • Data
      • Devices
    • Other
      • Virtual reality
      • Blockchain

Learning Rust Tips

Section titled “Learning Rust Tips”
  • Beginner learning
    • Read Rust book (twice)
    • Rustlings exercises, redo ones important to you
    • Rust by Example
  • Use cargo clippy

Try

Section titled “Try”

cargo packages (can use cargo binstall):

  • sccache for caching compiled packages
  • irust - repl
  • bacon - clippy and build, test - compilments LSP editor for help
  • cargo-info - check crates

See Also

Section titled “See Also”

Resources

Section titled “Resources”

  1. Learning