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1 **[Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/)** is a programming language created in 2010. Rust is a statically typed, multi-paradigm general purpose language developed by Mozilla. It has applications for both "high level" programming tasks (such as web applications) as well as low-level systems programming code. The first stable release was in 2014. Rust has a number of advantages over C: 2 3 - Memory safety 4 - Modern semantics and language features 5 6 Rust has a number of disadvantages from a permacomputing perspective: 7 8 - Currently only has a single fully-featured implementation 9 - Limited [platform support](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html) 10 - Highly complex language and toolchain requires a lot of computing resources, unsuitable to run on many platforms 11 - Largely dependent on [[Big Tech]] for resources and funding