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Rust: Secure by design

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Rust: Secure by design

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- The Rust language is a modern compiled language that's secure by design, and we're going to talk about this using the concept of a mythical magical kingdom called "Rustland." First, let's define the core characteristics of Rust. We have memory safety without garbage collection first, here. Rust provides memory safety without the need for garbage collector. That means there's no null or dangling pointers, no data races, and the safety is actually enforced at compile time. This prevents a wide class of common errors and vulnerabilities. Next step, we have ownership and borrowing. Rust's unique features of ownership and borrowing help manage memory safety. And in Rust, each value has a variable that's called its owner. There can only be one owner at a time. This prevents multiple threads from modifying data concurrently. This is a common source of bugs and crashes in other languages. It's also immutable by default. In Rust, all variables are immutable by default. This means that once a…

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