- Memory Safe
- Chromium Project has 70% vulnerabilities related to Memory.
- C/C++ doesn’t provide Memory Safety
- Python, JS provides Memory Safety but uses Garbage Collector
- Rust provides Memory Safety without using Garbage Collector.
- Rust achieves this functionality by making the language typed, thus the code won’t compile if any vulnerability will exist.
- No Null Types or No Null Pointers
- Null Pointers in C are used as
*ptr = NULL.
- Rust uses it’s rich type system to represent the absence of a value.
- No Exceptions
- Rust Provides No Direct Referencing, No Pointers and No Pointer Exceptions.
- Modern Package Manager
- It uses Package Manager named Cargo.
- No Data Race
- A data race occurs when:
- two or more threads in a single process access the same memory location concurrently, and
- at least one of the accesses is for writing, and
- the threads are not using any exclusive locks to control their accesses to that memory
- Game Changer for writing Asynchronous Code