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Architecture

Reasoning

Why Rust?

Rust was chosen as the programming language for Ripple for mainly below reasons

1. Memory Safety: Rust is a compiler that transforms the code to a target platform using the LLVM linker similar to libc++. Memory safety is offered out of the box by the compiler, unlike other system programming languages.
2. No Runtime: Rust compiles the application or library to the intended target platform without additional server or runtime offering itself as a candidate with less footprint.
3. Rust Community: Rust brings along with it a powerful packager called Cargo. Cargo is empowered by a registry called crates.io providing NPM like development environment where dependencies can be easily addressed.
4. Opensource Tooling and Infrastructure: 

Why Extensions?

Why Contracts?

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