“A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.” That’s the tagline for Rust, and it’s an apt one. A high-performance, reliable, productive programming language, Rust is used by hundreds of businesses around the world. It has topped Stack Overflow’s list of most-loved languages for seven consecutive years and counting.
Rust is applied to a wide range of projects, from web apps to games to data science programs. Its many benefits and attributes make it a top choice of language — and that’s why so many companies are quick to engage Rust development services.
Our Rust Development Services
Custom Rust Software Development
With BairesDev’s custom Rust software development services, businesses can create a wide variety of products to help them achieve their goals. Games, data science programs, blockchain applications, and virtual reality programs are just a few examples of the types of products BairesDev can help you bring to fruition using Rust.
Rust Web Apps Development
Rust is not just a great language for software development — it’s also ideal for web development. Many websites and web applications utilize Rust, and BairesDev’s expert web developers and designers can help you build and optimize digital solutions.
Smart Contract
Thanks to features like memory safety, efficiency, and type safety, Rust is the perfect choice for writing smart contracts — programs that are stored on the blockchain and are triggered to run when certain specified conditions are met. In recent years, Rust has become a popular choice for smart contracts.
Scalable dApps
Relatedly, Rust is also a good choice for decentralized applications — called dApps. These apps run on devices autonomously, operating on a blockchain or another peer-to-peer computer network. Our experts are adept at prioritizing qualities like security when building dApps for your business.
Rust Backend Development
There are a number of tools and frameworks suitable for supporting backend web development with Rust. When you partner with BairesDev, we will bring you top web developers to facilitate seamless website construction and maintenance.
Our Rust Development Process
Discovery
Initially, we will gather requirements, research the market, establish your goals, and get to know your company and the product you’re looking to create. This is an important step — or rather series of steps — in the development process, whether you’re using Rust or another language, because it allows us to better understand your needs and plan accordingly.
Development and Design
This is when we will build your product using Rust and other technologies according to your requirements and specifications.
Testing
QA testing is about ensuring not only that your product is as bug-free as possible but also that it’s of the highest quality. We perform a series of tests to evaluate different aspects of the project, such as functionality and performance.
Deployment
Reployment occurs only when we are both satisfied with the end product and can declare it ready for market.
Benefits of Rust for Software Development
- Popularity: Rust is a highly popular language — the most-loved language in the world. Given its steady rise as a great language to use, it’s surrounded by a large and growing community. That means that developers have plenty of support when it comes to using the language.
- Memory Safety: Rust provides an ownership system that guarantees memory safety, without the need for additional features or tools like a garbage collector.
- Scalability: One of Rust’s main benefits is that it’s a top choice for scalability — in fact, it was created for this very purpose.
What is the Rust Programming Language?
Rust might be something you want to avoid on your automobile, but your business would do well allowing this multi-paradigm programming language to spread through your technology. This language was designed for performance and safety with a special concentration on safe concurrency.
Rust was originally developed in 2006 by Graydon Hoare of Mozilla. Originally, Hoare created the initial compiler in OCaml but very soon shifted it to an LLVM-based, self-hosting compiler named rustc, which itself was written in Rust.
One of the biggest advantages of Rust, especially when applied to large collaborative projects, is that the compiler plays a gatekeeper and will refuse to compile code that contains elusive bugs (including concurrency bugs). Because of this, your teams can spend their time focusing on program logic, instead of bug testing.
Rust has also introduced several modern developer tools to the landscape, such as:
- Cargo: The Rust dependency manager and built tool used for adding, compiling, and managing dependencies.
- Rustfmt: Ensures a consistent coding style across teams.
- Rust Language Server: Allows for the integration of various Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for code completion and inline error messages.
Over the past couple of years, Rust has become incredibly popular. So popular that it’s being worked into the Linux kernel (the biggest open-source project on the planet). Why? Because Rust goes to great lengths to overcome specific issues other languages struggle with.
One thing Rust does is use static typing to get out of the engineer’s way while encouraging long-term code maintainability at the same time. This is quite the departure from many statically-typed languages that place the onus on the developer to repeat variable types multiple times. This tactic hinders both readability and refactoring.
Other statically-typed languages use whole-program type inference, which is quite convenient during the development phase. However, this type of language reduces the compiler’s ability to provide useful information about type-matching errors.
Rust finds a happy medium between these 2 types to create a very developer-friendly language.
Rust also gives the engineer the choice of storing data on the stack or on the heap and can determine at compile-time when memory will no longer be needed. This makes garbage collection incredibly efficient.
What is Rust Used For?
When considering adding Rust into your development pipeline, this is the most important question you can ask. The answer? Almost anything. Rust can be used for:
- Web
- Games
- Operating systems
- GUIs
- Blockchain
Some of the biggest Rust projects include:
- Rocket: Highly customizable web development framework.
- Bevy: A very popular game engine.
- Theseus: A modern operating system.
- Druid: An experimental Rust-native UI toolkit.
- OpenEthereum: One of the fastest, most secure Ethereum clients.
Firecracker: an open-source virtualization technology for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services.
Rust runs the gamut of possibility.
Advantages of Rust
Outside of the seemingly limitless possibilities, what other reasons are there that could persuade you to jump on the Rust train? Let’s take a look.
Ideal for embedded programming
Rust is fast and requires very low overhead, which makes it ideal for embedded systems. And because Rust allows for developers to find bugs early on in the process, it helps to prevent issues later on with IoT and other devices. To make this even more appealing, Rust allows for almost all types of abstractions, all of which will compile without affecting the performance of your code.
Great for web applications
In this modern age of technology and consumerism, your business can’t afford to miss out on the web application bandwagon. Any development team familiar with using Java or Python for web applications will feel right at home with Rust. Rust can also be compiled into WebAssembly, for near-native performance. With Rust you can also compile nearly any language into WebAssembly, making it perfect for creating efficient and portable code that can immediately run online.
Cross-platform development
For any company looking to develop for just about any known platform (web, mobile, desktop, and server), Rust might well be the perfect language for you. You can build applications for Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, and numerous embedded and edge systems.
Rust offers a wide ecosystem
Because Rust’s popularity has skyrocketed, it enjoys a vast ecosystem of tools, frameworks, and libraries. On top of that, there are plenty of Rust-specific conferences to attend, such as RustConf, RustBelt, and RustConf, RustFest, where your developers can learn even more about the language.
Disadvantages of Rust
But it’s not all good news. Rust has it’s drawbacks too.
Steep learning curve
Rust is a complex language, and it usually take a while for beginners to learn it. While there are plenty of materials to support newbies, anyone who wants to use this “most-loved” language should be aware of the steep learning curve and the time investment it will require to get the hang of it.
Long compile times
Rust utilizes slow compilers, and that makes it relatively slow at compiling when compared with similar languages. This can lengthen the timelines for project development, which can make the process tedious and time-consuming.
Ownership memory management model
Developers must define the transference of ownership in memory management, and there can be difficulties without defined specifications in place.
Strict language
Rust demands that everything must be perfect before it operates effectively. This over-strictness can be a pain sometimes.
Why Choose BairesDev for Rust Development
- High Standards: BairesDev has exceptionally high standards for its talent and code. We hire on the top 1% of Rust developers and other tech professionals to ensure that we will produce high-quality work.
- Dedicated Team: Our team will be fully dedicated to your project, which allows you to focus on your core business.
- Transparency: We will be open and transparent at every stage of the project, keeping you informed throughout the entire journey.
- Cost-Effectiveness: Outsourcing to BairesDev is a cost-effective option for your Rust development project. You will achieve exceptional results for a fraction of the cost.
