According to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021, which polled nearly 80,000 developers, Rust is the most popular programming language for the sixth time in a row. Facebook has joined the Rust Foundation, the organization that is driving the Rust programming language, along with Amazon Web Services, Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Mozilla to foster the development of Rust and make it a mainstream language of choice for systems programming and far beyond.
What is Rust Programming and What is so special about Rust language?
Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language that focuses on performance and safety, particularly safe concurrency. Rust is syntactically similar to C++, but it can guarantee memory safety by validating references with a borrow checker. Rust achieves memory safety in the absence of garbage collection. Rust has been subtitled a systems programming language, and it provides mechanisms for low-level memory management in addition to high-level features such as functional programming.
Rust solves two long-standing problems for C/C++ developers: memory errors and concurrent programming. There are two ways to write code in Rust:
Safe Rust - Safe Rust imposes additional constraints on the programmer (for example, object ownership management), ensuring that the code functions properly.
Unsafe Rust - Unsafe Rust allows the programmer more freedom (for example, it can operate on raw C-like pointers), but the code may fail.
What is Rust Language used for?
Rust is a low-level programming language that provides direct access to hardware and memory, making it an excellent choice for embedded and bare-metal development. Rust can be used to create operating systems and micro-controller applications. Rust has many advantages that make it ideal for use in a wide range of IT web development projects. For example, it enables the use of multiple channels at the same time, allowing it to send and receive data from multiple sources, and these channels can share information with one another.
Some of the big features of Rust Language:
- Reliability - Rust's rich type system and ownership model ensure memory safety and thread safety, allowing you to eliminate many types of bugs at compile time.
- Productivity - Rust includes excellent productivity tools that assist developers in increasing productivity.
- Performance - Rust has excellent performance results in a variety of applications.
- Concurrency – Rust handles concurrency very well and detects it during compile-time, allowing developers to fix the code as they work on it.
How you can assess and hire top Rust Developers with iMocha
Testing candidate skills is an integral part of the recruitment process. Our Digital skills assessment platform lets you create an rust programming assessment, invite the candidates, and analyze the reports of the assessment to make the best hiring decisions.
iMocha offers the following products to review candidates’ technical skills and understanding.
- Code Replay
With Code Replay, you can watch the video of code written by the candidate, and view the compilation details, test case results, and memory usage. Each video timeline is plotted with hotspots that appear each time the candidate compiles a code. This will help differentiate good programmers from average programmers.
- MCQ
A multiple-choice question (MCQ) is made up of two parts: the question or problem, and a set of alternatives or possible answers that include a key, which is the best answer to the question, and several distractors, which are convincing but incorrect answers to the question.
- Coding Questions
iMocha has a wide range of question types to test the candidate skills with many parameters. While screening for a developer role, you can test the coding skills of the candidate.
- AI-LogicBox
LogicBox is an artificial intelligence-based pseudo coding platform designed to assess programmers’ logical and problem-solving skills.
- Live Coding Interview
Live Coding Interview provides a hassle-free and seamless platform to conduct coding interviews by assessing the programming skills on the go in a real coding environment. It allows the interviewers to remotely recreate a coding interview environment that can help assess the programming skills in real-time.
Rising Demand for Rust in 2024
Rust is already a mature technology that is used in production. As of Feb 2024, there are more than 300 jobs listed on indeed.com, whereas nearly 147 open job positions are listed on glassdoor.com.
Here is the salary overview across different region
Conclusion
Rust will most likely continue to bloom. Especially given more companies are realizing the potential of the Rust language, it may not be an exaggeration to say that Rust may one day be one of the most widely used programming languages in the modern world.
