Chapter 1: The Rise of Rust

Rust has moved from a niche systems language to a serious option for safety-critical software, because it addresses some common software hazards at the language level. 

Originally created by Graydon Hoare in 2006, the early goal was for Rust to provide the low-level control of C and C++ while removing many of the risks that had become accepted as normal in systems programming. That meant building a language that could deliver code without relying on developers to manually prevent memory misuse and race conditions.