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# The Rust Programming Language # The Rust Programming Language
Rust is a systems programming language that is fast, memory safe and Rust is a fast systems programming language that guarantees
multithreaded, but does not employ a garbage collector or otherwise memory safety and offers painless concurrency ([no data races]).
impose significant runtime overhead. It does not employ a garbage collector and has minimal runtime overhead.
This repo contains the code for `rustc`, the Rust compiler, as well This repo contains the code for `rustc`, the Rust compiler, as well
as standard libraries, tools and documentation for Rust. as standard libraries, tools and documentation for Rust.
[no data races]: http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.html
## Quick Start ## Quick Start
Read ["Installing Rust"] from [The Book]. Read ["Installing Rust"] from [The Book].