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 # The Rust Programming Language
 
-Rust is a fast systems programming language that guarantees
-memory safety and offers painless concurrency ([no data races]).
-It does not employ a garbage collector and has minimal runtime overhead.
+This is the main source code repository for [Rust]. It contains the compiler, standard library,
+and documentation.
 
-This repo contains the code for the compiler (`rustc`), as well
-as standard libraries, tools and documentation for Rust.
-
-[no data races]: http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.html
+[Rust]: https://www.rust-lang.org
 
 ## Quick Start
 
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 You may find that other platforms work, but these are our officially
 supported build environments that are most likely to work.
 
-Rust currently needs about 1.5 GiB of RAM to build without swapping; if it hits
+Rust currently needs between 600MiB and 1.5GiB to build, depending on platform. If it hits
 swap, it will take a very long time to build.
 
 There is more advice about hacking on Rust in [CONTRIBUTING.md].