No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
—Milan Kundera
If you have not heard about the Rust programming language yet, I think you should. Rust won first place for “most-loved programming language” in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey in 2016, 2017, and 2018.
As noted on the Rust web site (
www.rust-lang.org
), the language has a long list of advantages, such as the following:
Zero-cost abstractions
Move semantics
Guaranteed memory safety
Threads without data races
Trait-based generics
Pattern matching ...
