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Rust is a systems programming language focused on three goals: safety, speed, and concurrency. It maintains these goals without needing a garbage collector, making it a useful language for a number of use cases other languages aren't good at: embedding in other languages, programs with specific space and time requirements, and writing low-level code, like device drivers and operating systems.
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Why does Rust require external linkers? Any other similar languages?
Rust requires a linker to generate final output. It's only "external" insofar as it is a separate program from the compiler that generates object files. … Sure, Rust could bundle LLD, but what would be the advantage over using the system linker on Linux, or bundling MinGW (which is needed anyway) on Windows and using the LD inside? …
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Intuition behind why Rust's io::stdin().read_line() relies on a side effect?
Imagine a simple program which reads a file line by line. There are two ways to write it:
Here's the one where a new string is returned every iteration (hidden in the lines iterator).
use std::fs::*;
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