It’s Better to Rust Than Wear Out

When a colleague of mine first enthused to me about Rust, I was skeptical. Back in the day, I’d cut my programming teeth developing software for safety-critical systems, and I’d learned the hard way that programming languages are frequently less sane than they first appear. Take C. Despite a considerable standardization effort, the C specification remains riddled with unspecified, undefined, and implementation- defined behaviors. And even in 2016, researchers continue to explore the differences between the C ISO standard and the de facto usage.