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'''Rust''' is a [[General-purpose programming language|general-purpose]] [[programming language]] emphasizing [[Computer performance|performance]], [[type safety]], and [[Concurrency (computer science)|concurrency]]. It enforces [[memory safety]], meaning that all [[Reference (computer science)|references]] point to valid memory. It does so without a conventional [[Garbage collection (computer science)|garbage collector]]; instead, memory safety errors and [[data race]]s are prevented by the "borrow checker", which tracks the [[object lifetime]] of references [[Compiler|at compile time]].

Rust supports multiple [[programming paradigm]]s. It was influenced by ideas from [[functional programming]], including [[Immutable object|immutability]], [[higher-order function]]s, [[algebraic data type]]s, and [[pattern matching]]. It also supports [[object-oriented programming]] via structs, [[EnumeratedUnion type|enums]], traits, and methods.

Software developer Graydon Hoare created Rust as a personal project while working at [[Mozilla]] Research in 2006. Mozilla officially sponsored the project in 2009. The first stable release of Rust, Rust 1.0, was published in May 2015. Following a large layoff of Mozilla employees in August 2020, multiple other companies joined Mozilla in sponsoring Rust through the creation of the [[#Rust Foundation|Rust Foundation]] in February 2021. In December 2022, Rust became the first language other than [[C (programming language)|C]] and [[Assembly language|assembly]] to be supported in the development of the [[Linux kernel]].