Compare suitability, operational responsibilities and limits before choosing this technology for a project. Which trade-offs should guide the decision?

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Rust is useful for systems software, performance-sensitive services and libraries where memory safety without a garbage collector is valuable. Its ownership model prevents many classes of memory error in safe code. Unsafe code, foreign interfaces and application logic still need careful review and testing.

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