A blazingly fast and memory-efficient programming language with no runtime or garbage collector. It can power performance-critical services, run on embedded devices, and easily integrate with other languages.

Coming from 10 years of modern C++, Rust feels both like a breath of fresh air and a spiritual successor who learned from both the good and the bad of its illustrious predecessor. Rust's key insight is the "mutable XOR aliased" concept that promotes memory safety while keeping the memory model of C and C++, and the attached performance. Tuck brilliant tooling and contemporary ergonomics on top of that, and you'll surely find more than one good reason to keep writing Rust in the future 🚀

We chose Rust for SurrealDB because performance and safety matter. Rust’s memory safety guarantees and zero-cost abstractions let us build a fast, scalable database engine without sacrificing reliability.

Rust creates a reliable and performant solution for the backend.

A high-level, safe and concurrent alternative to C++

Rust

A high-level, safe and concurrent alternative to C++

A high-level, safe and concurrent alternative to C++

Rust

A high-level, safe and concurrent alternative to C++

A high-level, safe and concurrent alternative to C++

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