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Rust is a systems programming language focused on three goals: safety,
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speed, and concurrency. It maintains these goals without having a
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garbage collector, making it a useful language for a number of use cases
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other languages aren't good at: embedding in other languages, programs
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with specific space and time requirements, and writing low-level code,
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like device drivers and operating systems.
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It improves on current languages targeting this space by having a number
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of compile-time safety checks that produce no runtime overhead, while
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eliminating all data races. Rust also aims to achieve "zero-cost
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abstractions" even though some of these abstractions feel like those of
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a high-level language. Even then, Rust still allows precise control
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like a low-level language would.
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