This document provides an introduction to the Rust programming language. It discusses why Rust was created, its history and origins at Mozilla for developing the Firefox browser, and its key features like having no garbage collector, being memory safe without runtime overhead, and enabling performance and concurrency. It also provides examples showing Rust's strong performance compared to C, C++, Go and Python in benchmark tests. The document promotes Rust as a language suitable for a wide range of use cases from low-level systems programming to high-level applications, and notes its growing adoption by major tech companies.