Why is Rust revolutionary?

With programming, there is usually a trade-off between speed and resources and development speed and safety. Low-level languages such as C/C++ can give the developer fine-grained control over the computer with fast code execution and minimal resource consumption. However, this is not free. Manual memory management can introduce bugs and security vulnerabilities. A simple example of this is a buffer overflow attack. This occurs when the programmer does not allocate enough memory. For instance, if the buffer only has a size of 15 bytes, and 20 bytes are sent, then the excess 5 bytes might be written past the boundary. An attacker can exploit this by passing in more bytes than the buffer can handle. This can potentially overwrite areas that hold executable code with their own code. There are other ways to exploit a program that does not have correctly managed memory. On top of increased vulnerabilities, it takes more code and time to solve a problem in a low...