Why Rust Exists
A short history of Rust — from a Mozilla research project to the language rewriting the kernel.
You can't really understand Rust without understanding what it was reacting to. Every design decision is scar tissue from decades of C and C++ bugs.
The problem
Roughly 70% of security vulnerabilities in large C/C++ codebases come from memory safety issues: use-after-free, buffer overflows, data races.
The bet
Rust bets you can eliminate that entire class of bugs at compile time — without a garbage collector, without runtime overhead — if you teach the compiler about ownership.
Two rules that changed everything
- Every value has exactly one owner.
- You can have many readers, or one writer — never both.
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