using-rust-without-the-standard-library.md

% Using Rust without the Standard Library

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Rust’s standard library provides a lot of useful functionality, but assumes support for various features of its host system: threads, networking, heap allocation, and others. There are systems that do not have these features, however.

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This particular chapter has moved to the Unstable Book.

• In the Unstable Rust Book: lang_items — Writing an executable without stdlib
• In the first edition: Ch 4.12 — Using Rust without the Standard Library