ARK Rust

We are nearing completion of our Software Development Kit (SDK) Roadmap, here is our latest and 16th addition — the Rust SDK.

We are attempting to make it as easy as possible for developers to jump into blockchain development by incorporating all of the major programming languages that we can. Allowing the Rust programming language to be able to interact with the ARK Blockchain opens up one more additional tool for developers to work with ARK.

Hundreds of companies, large and small, use Rust in production for a variety of tasks. Those tasks include command line tools, web services, DevOps tooling, embedded devices, audio and video analysis and transcoding, cryptocurrencies, bioinformatics, search engines, Internet of Things applications, machine learning, and even major parts of the Firefox web browser.

Rust is proving to be a productive tool for collaborating among large teams of developers with varying levels of systems programming knowledge. Low-level code is prone to a variety of subtle bugs, which in most other languages can be caught only through extensive testing and careful code review by experienced developers. In Rust, the compiler plays a gatekeeper role by refusing to compile code with these elusive bugs, including concurrency bugs. By working alongside the compiler, the team can spend their time focusing on the program’s logic rather than chasing down bugs.

To learn more about Rust visit their site at:
https://www.rust-lang.org/

Features of Rust

zero-cost abstractions
move semantics
guaranteed memory safety
threads without data races
trait-based generics
pattern matching
type inference
nominal runtime
efficient C bindings

Like all our rewritten SDKs Rust follows SoC (Separation of Concerns) design pattern where we separate Client and Crypto code in 2 libraries.

ARK Rust Client:
https://github.com/ArkEcosystem/rust-client
ARK Rust Crypto:
https://github.com/ArkEcosystem/rust-crypto
ARK Rust Client Docs:
https://docs.ark.io/api/sdk/clients/rust.html
ARK Rust Crypto Docs:
https://docs.ark.io/api/sdk/cryptography/rust.html

With this latest addition we are almost done covering all major programming languages. The last ones on the list are C and C++, which will be done in the upcoming weeks.

Here are some of our officially supported SDKs:

JavaScript (Client & Crypto)
PHP (Client & Crypto)
Python (Client & Crypto)
Ruby (Client & Crypto)
Go (Client & Crypto)
.NET (Client & Crypto)
Java (Client & Crypto)
Elixir (Client & Crypto)
Swift (Client & Crypto)
Rust (Client & Crypto)

If you want to get involved with development be sure to check our GitHub Bounty and our developmental guidelines.

If you want to dive deeper into Rust and it’s abilities, give the official Rust 2018 book a read at https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/2018-edition/foreword.html