Rust for Java developers

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Rust claims memory safety without a VM by enforcing ownership and borrowing at compile time so many bugs are eliminated before runtime, trading faster runtime but longer compile times. Tooling is concrete: rustup for installs and Cargo (build/package manager) plus crates.io for dependencies. Examples: no nulls, use Option/Result enums and the ? operator to propagate errors. Use cases shown are embedded firmware to cloud microservices where Java services often exceed 500 MB while Rust services use an order of magnitude less.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Rust
2. 1:34History of programming languages
3. 6:18Rust’s memory safety model
4. 10:44Nullability and error handling
5. 13:52Structs and traits in Rust
6. 16:05Rust tooling and ecosystem
7. 20:28Rust use cases and adoption
8. 26:36Q&A and closing

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