Rust is a programming language designed for performance and memory safety. It began in 2006 as a personal project of Graydon Hoare, a Mozilla employee, and Mozilla began to sponsor it officially in 2009. Its distinctive feature is a system of ownership and borrowing that lets the compiler prevent many memory errors and data races without a garbage collector. The first stable version, Rust 1.0, appeared in May 2015, and the language is now developed by an open community, with the Rust Foundation formed in 2021. It is used for systems software, browsers, web services and command-line tools, and it has been accepted as a language for writing parts of the Linux kernel.
Before and after
- 23 June 2006Creation of Xubuntu
- 24 June 2006Déjà Vu
- from 12 July 2006 to 14 August 20062006 Lebanon War
- 22 July 2006Construction of Emirates Stadium
- 23 July 2006Creation of Rust
- 7 August 2006Discovery of C/2006 P1
- 10 August 2006Discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb
- 15 August 2006Release of Wikiversity
- 24 August 2006Pluto is reclassified as a dwarf planet
More in Science & technology
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1955Discovery of mendelevium
- 14 February 1961Discovery of lawrencium
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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