There Is Life Before Main in Rust
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Author: mmastrac
Date: 6/11/2026
Article Summary:
This article discusses the concept of "life before main" in Rust, where the pre-main phase of the runtime is used to configure parts of the language and runtime, and to perform initialization tasks.