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+Rust
+
Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language.
-It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details.
+It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and
+semantic details.
Its design is oriented toward concerns of "programming in the large", that is, of creating
-and maintaining boundaries - both abstract and operational - that preserve large-system integrity,
-availability and concurrency.
+and maintaining boundaries - both abstract and operational - that preserve large-system
+integrity, availability and concurrency.
+
+It supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure
+functional styles. Rust also supports generic programming and metaprogramming, in both static
+and dynamic styles.
-It supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure functional styles.
-Rust also supports generic programming and metaprogramming, in both static and dynamic styles.
+Cargo - the Rust package manager - is included into this build.
A short summary of features