Articles filed in category 'Rust'

  • Building Distributed Apps Using Rust and C# with .NET Aspire

    By: Joydip Kanjilal

    Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2026 - Jan/Feb

    Joydip explores building scalable, high-performance distributed applications using a polyglot architecture that combines Rust and C# with the .NET Aspire framework. He highlights how Rust handles real-time, low-latency data ingestion and processing, while C# and .NET Aspire manage security, integration, and business logic. The article covers the benefits and challenges of polyglot microservices, details setting up Rust and .NET Aspire projects, and demonstrates interoperability via message brokers like RabbitMQ and serialization with Protocol Buffers, emphasizing the synergy of these technologies for modern cloud-native distributed systems.

  • Rust

    By: Ted Neward

    Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - September/October

    Ted Neward surveys Rust as a systems programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency without a garbage collector. He explains how Rust’s ownership, borrowing, and move semantics enforce memory safety at compile time, outlines its mutability model and type system, and surveys core features such as structs, tuples, traits, and pattern matching. He also highlights the ecosystem around cargo and crates, and discusses how Rust produces standalone, platform-specific binaries ideal for containerized environments. Overall, Neward presents Rust as a low-level, performance-focused alternative to managed runtimes, with strong guarantees that shape how developers write safe, efficient code.