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+## Why Rust?
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+- **Performance:** Fast and memory-efficient, suitable for critical services, embedded devices, and easily integrate with other languages.
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+- **Reliability:** Our rich type system and ownership model ensure memory and thread safety, reducing bugs at compile-time.
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+- **Productivity:** Comprehensive documentation, a compiler committed to providing great diagnostics, and advanced tooling including package manager and build tool ([Cargo]), auto-formatter ([rustfmt]), linter ([Clippy]) and editor support ([rust-analyzer]).
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+[Cargo]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo
+[rustfmt]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt
+[Clippy]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy
+[rust-analyzer]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer
+
 ## Quick Start
 
 Read ["Installation"] from [The Book].