# 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
# Update package mirrors (may be needed if you have a fresh install of MSYS2)
$ pacman -Sy pacman-mirrors
- # Choose one based on platform: (+++ see the note below +++)
+ # Choose one based on platform:
+ # *** see the note below ***
$ pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain
$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain