From aaabdbfe049cb4eaa2a353f4ce1bc59862a6b49e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Anderson <banderson@mozilla.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:08:32 -0800
Subject: README: Add one sentence about what Rust is.

Most people don't know what Rust is.
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 # The Rust Programming Language
 
 This is a compiler for Rust, including standard libraries, tools and
-documentation.
+documentation. Rust is a systems programming language that is fast,
+memory safe and multithreaded, but does not employ a garbage collector
+or otherwise impose significant runtime overhead.
 
 ## Quick Start
 
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