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Gabor Szabo
Gabor Szabo

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Why 🦀 Rust? - It is good for both Microsoft and Linux!

People often ask me why did I start to learn Rust? 🦀

After all I have been using and teaching Python for many years and Python is probably the most popular language. 🐍

I read a lot of good things about the technical aspects of Rust, but there are many other languages with excellent features. Different, but excellent features.

I am personally interested both the technical capabilities of the language and its growth potential and I think the number of Rust programmers will grow a lot in the coming years. 📈

If you are interested in the technical aspect, I can discuss that in another post, but for now let me tell you about the 2 main, non-technical data points.

One is that some of the biggest tech companies support the development of the language and specifically that Microsoft has started to use it in a lot of areas.

The other one was that Linus Torvalds has approved Rust to be a language to be used in the Linux kernel. This is the only language besides C (not to be confused with C# 😀 ) that has been approved.

So two very different ecosystems decided that Rust is good for their purposes. I bet it will be good for many other companies as well.

Why did you start to learn Rust or if you have not yet, what is stopping you?

If you are not yet a member, join the Rust Programming Language group on LinkedIn.

See the Rust Foundation members.

Read some articles on my Rust Maven site.

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