How Rust is the Programming Language of Web3 in 2022

Rust has a Bright Future with Blockchain and Web3 Services

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Rust made some pretty serious headway in 2021. With the hype around Web3 with the New Year, I thought it might be worth covering the rise of the programming language of Rust, and note how it intersects with Web3 talent.

Today we are going to talk about Rust programming language. In 2021 Facebook joined Amazon Web Services, Google, Huawei,?Microsoft, and Mozilla in using Rust in some capacity.

In the realm of becoming a programmer on the blockchain.?There’s an increasing demand in 2022 for Rust and Solidity.?Blockchain developers are still in short supply.

With crypto adoption now on the rise, programming languages are trending again. Satoshi Nakamoto has a secret command for you then,?learn Rust.

Recently the leader of Block himself, Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey took to the social media platform to reveal what he thought was a “perfect” language for programming.

Dorsey hasn’t just become a crypto fan, he’s become of the the business pioneers around Bitcoin and blockchain. Crypto watchers have largely concluded that Dorsey is a Bitcoin proponent.?However, Rust is used by alts including Polkadot and Solana.?Rust is perhaps the programming language of future blockchain interoperability.

Like Solidity, Rust can?be used to write smart contracts?(and is used on the Solana blockchain).

Rust is also rising in popularity.?Rust is a?multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency.

Rust is Rapidly Growing in Popularity

You can learn more about Rust?here.?On?Stack Overflow Rust is one of the most beloved programming languages.?Rust has been Stack Overflow’s most loved language for a few years running now, indicating that many of those who have had the opportunity to use Rust have fallen in love with it. That it can be used in smart contracts only boosts its reputation.

Rust was created with an eye to ensuring high performance, comparable to that offered by C and C++, while emphasizing the code’s safety, the achilles heel of the other two languages. Rust has a glow about it, and despite having a steep learning curve, the programming language offers speed and safety.

It has worked so well that?Rust programming language?is now used by well-known software heavyweights including Firefox, Dropbox and Cloudflare, and many companies, from startups to large corporation including many crypto startups and blockchain companies.

First created in 2006 by Graydon Hoare as a side project while working at browser-developer Mozilla, headquartered in Mountain View, California, Rust blends the performance of languages such as C++ with friendlier syntax, a focus on code safety and a well-engineered set of tools that simplify development. Rust is now a teenager in programing languages and is hitting a newfound popularity.

Rust is the Safe Blockchain Language

Rust programming language?is open source and since it’s used in crypto it just keeps getting more popular.?One thing the blockchain needs is safety and security.

The big difference from C and C++ is that Rust is?safe by default; all memory accesses are checked. It is not possible to corrupt memory by accident.

The unifying principles behind Rust are:

• strictly enforcing?safe borrowing?of data
• functions, methods and closures to operate on data
• tuples, structs and enums to aggregate data
• pattern matching to select and destructure data
• traits to define?behaviour?on data

Rust programming was created to solve problems present in other languages and if you can take the time to unlock its (admittedly difficult) secrets, you’re rewarded with cleaner, faster, and most importantly, safer code.

This gives Rust a magic sauce not often found in coding languages. It’s so hot as a trend even Scientists, too, are turning to Rust in 2022.

Rust is one of the fastest-growing programming languages as it grew 234% in the past year.?Its applications will continue to grow in 2022.

In today’s world and especially in crypto programming needs to be robust, reliable and useful. Rust is a bit of a hybrid, according to Mozilla’s Rust documentation. Rust offers developers the syntax advantages of high-level languages with the “control and performance of a low-level language,” the documentation explains.

In the world of blockchain, Dapps and smart contracts you need something solid. Rust achieves memory safety without garbage collection and prevents developers from making common errors and introducing bugs.

Few programming language have as much utility to learn as Rust with current software engineering trends if you want to work in FinTech, crypto, blockchain and Web3 related startups or companies.

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