" Rust is technology from the past came to save the future from itself. "
- Graydon Hoare
Rust is a fast, concurrent, safe, and empowering programming language originally started and developed by Graydon Hoare in 2006. It's now an open source language that's developed mainly by a team from Mozilla with collaboration from lots of open source folks. The first stable version, 1.0, was released in May 2015. The project began with the hope of mitigating memory safety issues that came up in gecko with the use of C++. Gecko is the browser engine that's used in Mozilla's Firefox browser. C++ is not an easy language to tame and has concurrency abstractions that can be easily misused. With gecko using C++, a ...
