The Rust programming language
Rust is a programming language developed by Mozilla Research. It is designed to be a safe and concurrent language that is suitable for systems programming.
Concurrency
Concurrency is the ability of a computer program to perform multiple tasks concurrently, or at the same time. This is often achieved by using multiple threads, which are separate execution paths that can run in parallel within a single program.
Concurrency can be useful for improving the performance and responsiveness of a program, especially when tasks can be executed in parallel on multiple CPU cores or when waiting for slow operations, such as I/O or network communication.
It can also make it easier to design and implement programs, by allowing different parts of the program to be developed and tested independently.
However, concurrent programming can also be difficult, because it introduces challenges such as race conditions, deadlocks, and livelocks. Race conditions occur when multiple threads access shared data simultaneously, leading to unpredictable behavior.
Deadlocks occur when two or more threads are blocked and waiting for each other to release a resource, resulting in a standstill. Livelocks are similar to deadlocks, but instead of being blocked, the threads keep retrying their…
