Rust

Rust is the chosen language for GWR for a number of reasons.

1. Strongly typed.
   • Helps enforce more rigorous software design.
2. Fast compiled code.
   • Should produce applications that run as quickly as possible.
3. Prevents unsafe code.
   • Improves the quality and robustness of our models. Up front cost that should save time overall.
4. Good async programming support.
   • Rust is still evolving around async support, but provides what we need now.
5. Excellent build system.
   • Integrated documentation, tests, benchmarking.
6. Easy integration with 3rd party libraries.
   • Crates provide access to many high-quality 3rd party libraries.

The objective is to allow us to write larger models where the tools provide more compile-time checks.