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Rust Alive

Rust
KindProgramming language
Appeared2010
StatusAlive
CreatorGraydon Hoare / Mozilla
FamilyC
Sourcewww.rust-lang.org ↗

Ownership instead of garbage collection — memory safety proven in the type system; the language the industry now reaches for when C's contract becomes unpayable.

Influenced by C++ Haskell OCaml
Created by Tony Hoare Mozilla
Influenced Swift

Graydon Hoare's personal project became Mozilla's Rust (2010/2015) — ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes made memory safety without GC real. The borrow checker is the price; the guarantees are the prize.\n\nIt is the most-loved language for nine years running, the systems-language successor, and the first language Linux added to its kernel beside C.

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Timeline

2010Personal project at Mozilla
2015Rust 1.0
2024Into the Linux kernel

Sources

  1. rust-lang.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)