- "Programming in the large" - programming produced by lots of people and/or meant to last a long time.
- "creating and maintaining boundaries" - when you have a lot of people working on code, it's very useful to be able to isolate code and define the boundaries between code explicitly. Things like interfaces and type safety tend to help do this (the "abstract" in "abstract and operational"). On the "operational" side, having modules that produce dynamic libraries with good versioning semantics helps.
- "that preserve large-system integrity, availability" - again, type safety, in-built null pointer protection and garbage collection all help make sure that code doesn't fall over as much as it could without those (there are some philosophical arguments in here that I'm not exploring).
- "concurrency" - Consensus appears to be forming around the idea that a good way to manage concurrency is with lightweight processes and message passing rather than threads and shared state. Rust does the former. Rust also encourages the use of immutable state which also helps avoid concurrency issues.
- "Programming in the large" - programming produced by lots of people and/or meant to last a long time.
- "creating and maintaining boundaries" - when you have a lot of people working on code, it's very useful to be able to isolate code and define the boundaries between code explicitly. Things like interfaces and type safety tend to help do this (the "abstract" in "abstract and operational"). On the "operational" side, having modules that produce dynamic libraries with good versioning semantics helps.
- "that preserve large-system integrity, availability" - again, type safety, in-built null pointer protection and garbage collection all help make sure that code doesn't fall over as much as it could without those (there are some philosophical arguments in here that I'm not exploring).
- "concurrency" - Consensus appears to be forming around the idea that a good way to manage concurrency is with lightweight processes and message passing rather than threads and shared state. Rust does the former. Rust also encourages the use of immutable state which also helps avoid concurrency issues.