0. Introduction

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Disclaimer: This series is intended for developers who know basics of Rust language programming. Before reading it, you should read books like The Rust Programming Language.

Rust is commonly known as a very secure language. It has several features that make a programmer's life easier when it comes to writing programs that are bug-free.

Memory safety features

Ownership has three basic rules:

  1. Each value has an owner.
  2. There is only one owner at a time.
  3. When the owner goes out of scope, the value gets dropped.

Ownership can be transfered or borrowed.

References and Borrowing

Lifetimes

Option Enum

Moving Ownership

Safe indexing

Fearless Concurrency

Smart pointers

Security Features

Unfortunately, these features don't prevent all kinds types of bugs and vulnerabilities that are possible to make in the program. This series of articles is about bugs that you, as a programmer, need to prevent on your own. I don't pretend that I know all types of bugs and vulnerabilities, so I'll try to present the most common ones.

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