Rust Essentials - Second Edition

Preface

Rust is a stable, open source, and compiled programming language that finally promises software developers the utmost safety--not only type safety, but also memory safety. The compiler carefully checks all uses of variables and pointers so that common problems from C/C++ and other languages, such as pointers to wrong memory locations or null references, are a thing of the past. Possible problems are detected at compilation time, and Rust programs execute at speeds comparable with their C++ counterparts.

Rust runs with a very light runtime, which does not perform garbage collection. Again, the compiler takes care of generating the code that frees all resources at the right time. This means Rust can run in very constrained environments, ...