Mozilla's systems programming language Rust

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Article from Issue 179/2015
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We look at a few features of Rust, Mozilla's systems programming language, and its similarity to other languages.

The statically typed programming language Rust [1] places much emphasis on speed and security. Rust, like its inspiration C, stores fixed-sized variables in a stack. However, it stores pointer values in the main memory heap. The code in Listing 1 demonstrates controlled handling of allocated memory in Rust. If you compile Listing 1 in the shell via

rustc moved.rs

the compiler will abort the process with the error message moved_type.rs:8:3: 8:6 error: use of moved value: `vec` for line 8.

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