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  • 1. Welcome to Arbitrum Stylus and Rust
    • Brief Introduction to Arbitrum Stylus
    • Importance of Rust in Blockchain Development
    • What You'll Learn in This Tutorial Series
  • 2. Setting Up Your Development Environment
    • Installing Rust
    • Setting Up Arbitrum Stylus
    • Basic Commands
  • 3. Your First Smart Contract: Hello World
    • Introduction to Smart Contracts
    • Writing the Hello World Contract
    • Deploying and Testing Your Contract
  • 4. Understanding Smart Contract Storage: Simple Storage
    • Basics of Contract Storage
    • Writing the Simple Storage Contract
    • Interacting with Storage Variables
  • 5. Creating Your Own Token: Token Contract
    • Introduction to Tokens and Standards
    • Writing the Token Contract
    • Deploying and Testing Your Token
  • 6. Additional Resources and Next Steps
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  • Why Rust?
  • Key Advantages of Rust:
  • Advantages of Using Rust for Smart Contracts
  1. 1. Welcome to Arbitrum Stylus and Rust

Importance of Rust in Blockchain Development

Why Rust?

Rust is a systems programming language designed for performance and safety, particularly safe concurrency. It is known for its strong compile-time guarantees and modern language features, which make it a powerful tool for developing secure and efficient applications, including smart contracts.

Key Advantages of Rust:

  • Memory Safety: Rust’s ownership model ensures memory safety without needing a garbage collector. This prevents common bugs such as null pointer dereferencing and buffer overflows.

  • Concurrency: Rust makes it easy to write concurrent programs by eliminating data races at compile time.

  • Performance: Rust’s performance is comparable to C and C++, making it ideal for low-level programming and high-performance applications.

Advantages of Using Rust for Smart Contracts

  1. Safety and Reliability:

  • Rust’s strict compiler checks help prevent bugs during development.

  • Ensures that smart contracts are reliable and secure.

  1. Efficiency:

  • Rust’s performance characteristics allow for efficient execution of smart contracts.

  • Reduces gas costs by optimizing the execution of contract code.

  1. Modern Language Features:

  • Provides powerful features like pattern matching, generics, and zero-cost abstractions.

  • Facilitates writing clean, maintainable code.

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