Outline of the Rust programming language

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Rust:

Rust is a multi-paradigm programming language emphasizing performance, memory safety, and concurrency. Rust was initially developed by Graydon Hoare starting in 2006, later sponsored and maintained by Mozilla Research starting in 2009, and first publicly released in 2010, with version 1.0 released in 2015. Rust is syntactically similar to C++ but guarantees memory safety without needing a garbage collector.¹²³⁴

• Programming language – artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a computer
• Compiled language – implemented through compilers rather than interpreters⁵
• General-purpose programming language
• Multi-paradigm programming language – supports functional programming, imperative programming, concurrent programming.
• Statically typed programming language – type checking performed at compile time⁶
• Systems programming language – designed for low-level programming and operating system development⁷
• Memory-safe language – prevents common undefined behavior like dangling pointers and buffer overflows⁸

• Graydon Hoare – creator of Rust starting in 2006⁹
• Mozilla – original sponsor and maintainer of Rust starting in 2009
• Cargo (software) – introduced as Rust’s official package manager and build system in 2014
• Rust Foundation – current steward of the Rust project since its inception in 2021

• Compile time performance³⁶
• Ecosystem maturity

• rustc – official Rust compiler
• LLVM – Rust backend uses LLVM for code generation
• mrustc – alternative Rust compiler written in C++³⁷
• Cranelift – JIT compiler backend used in Wasmtime³⁸³⁹

• Cargo – build system and package manager⁴⁰
• Crates.io – official Rust package registry⁴¹

• Rocket – web framework focused on type safety⁴²
• Serde – framework for serialization and deserialization supporting JSON, YAML, TOML, and more.⁴³
• Tokio – asynchronous runtime for Rust⁴⁴

• Criterion.rs – benchmarking library⁴⁵⁴⁶
• Built-in unit testing with Cargo⁴⁷

• Firefox (partial, via components)
• Alacritty
• Deno
• TiKV

• Articles with example Rust code

Excerpted from: "The best Rust books for 2025, reviewed". Bitfield Consulting. July 5, 2024.

• Dyon – rusty dynamically typed scripting language⁴⁸
• Fe – inspired by Rust, smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain⁴⁹
• Move – originally developed for the Diem blockchain⁵⁰
• Sway – Rust-based language for smart contracts⁵¹

• Getting started with Rust
• Official Rust Learn page
• W3Schools – Rust tutorials
• The Rust Programming Language (online book)
• Rust By Example

• LeetCode – supports Rust submissions
• HackerRank – includes Rust challenges
• Codeforces – supports Rust in contests