1 Why Rust?
This chapter covers
- The tooling that comes bundled with a standard Rust installation
- A first glimpse of the Rust compiler and what makes it so unique
- What is needed to write web services in Rust
- Features that support the maintainability of Rust applications
Rust is a systems programming language. Unlike an interpreted language like JavaScript or Ruby, Rust has a compiler like Go, C, or Swift. It combines running with no overhead (like active garbage collection in Go or a virtual machine, like Java), but offers easy-to-read syntax from Python and Ruby. Rust therefore performs as languages like C. This is all possible because of the compiler that safeguards any type errors and makes sure to eliminate many classical runtime errors, ...
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