Tech/Languages/Rust

Rust is a general purpose language that is very popular in 2024

Example

Hello World example lets make helloworld.rs

fn main() {
    println!("Hello World");
}

Which needs compiled

rustc helloworld.rs

then run it

./helloworld
Hello World

Risks

Rust is a pretty awesome language however it has risks. Like GoLang and some other languages there is a reliance on external libraries that may or may not exist during compile time on another machine. These third party libraries my become compromised over time or even just url hijacked. See https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ for examples.

Resources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28programming_language%29
• https://www.rust-lang.org/