Practical Site Reliability Engineering
by Pethuru Raj Chelliah, Shreyash Naithani, Shailender Singh
Concept of Rust programming
Lots of you may be wondering why we need another language when we already have many of them: JAVA, C/C++, Python, and so on. Before going deep into rust programming, let's see why need it in the first place and why we are calling it the future of programming. In C/C++/C#, we have a lot of control over the hardware that we are running on so that we can optimize it properly. In these languages, we can have more control, as we can translate it directly to assembly code, but it's not very safe, and a small mistake can create a big segfault. On the other hand, we have the Python or Ruby language, which gives us more safety but very little control over what's going on. But now we have Rust, and Rust gives you all the ...
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