programming languages: the rust programming language
the rust programming language is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language popular for providing low level programming capabilities while sporting a rather high level syntax speed / performance.
these capabilities really shine when writing utilities for operating systems as, rust, by default, supports low level interaction with the operating system kernel making it useful for writing operating system utilities as is in the case of Linux.
Linux has many of these such utilities written in the Rust programming language. Furthermore, an entire functioning highly-optimized graphical Linux distribution can be constructed using only modular components written in the Rust programming language.
and now to provide some history :
in 2007, a Canadian software engineer by the name of Graydon Hoare, started Rust as his own personal project and it evolved into the highly advanced programming language that it is today; he continued to contribute upon and in 2015 it had its first stable release to the public.
in recent years, the rust programming language was voted as single most liked programming language by its coders; they state that its lightning fast speed and unique syntax provide a wonderful experience for coders.