Summary

In this chapter, we explored why Rust stands out as one of the most favored programming languages, particularly due to its exceptional speed and performance. Moreover, its distinctive attributes, such as type safety, AOT compilation, zero-cost abstractions, and freedom from garbage collection, contribute to its popularity. Following this, we’ve delved into crucial Rust concepts that lay the foundation for upcoming chapters. These concepts encompass variables, data types, tuples, arrays, slices, control flow, functions, and vectors, all of which will be instrumental in our continued learning journey.

We also covered advanced concepts such as hashmaps, ownership and borrowing, crates, modules, and cargo, all of which help us work with projects.

This was a quick, whirlwind tour of the most important and the most commonly used Rust features that we will be using and reusing throughout the rest of this book, hence why it was important to get this out of the way. However...