Rust (programming language): Difference between revisions

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-Rust is a low-level programming language. It's main advantage is supposed to be memory safety by default.
+Rust is a low-level programming language.
-Recently, Rust has been adopted to many systems applications such as the Linux kernel drivers and Android.
+The main advantage is that it encourages memory-safe programming through reference ownership and by isolating memory-unsafe functions.
 ==Usage==
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 ===Borrowing===
-This is like references in C++.
+This is like references or <code>unique_ptr</code> in C++.
 <syntaxhighlight lang="rust">
 let x = 5;