Building Telegram Bots: Develop Bots in 12 Programming Languages using the Telegram Bot API

© Nicolas Modrzyk 2019

Nicolas ModrzykBuilding Telegram Botshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4197-4_4

4. Week 4: Rust

Nicolas Modrzyk¹ 

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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

 

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 ...