Origins (2006–2012)
Rust began as a personal project in 2006 by Mozilla Research employee Graydon Hoare. Mozilla began sponsoring the project in 2009 as a … See more

In general, Rust's memory safety guarantees do not impose a runtime overhead. A notable exception is array indexing which is checked at runtime, though this often … See more

Rust Foundation
The Rust Foundation is a non-profit membership organization incorporated in United States, with the primary purposes of backing the … See more

Rust's syntax is similar to that of C and C++, although many of its features were influenced by functional programming languages such as See more

The Rust ecosystem includes its compiler, its standard library, and additional components for software development. Component installation is typically managed by rustup, a Rust toolchain installer developed by the Rust project.
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Rust has been used in software across different domains. Rust was initially funded by Mozilla as part of developing Servo, an experimental See more

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