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Large swaths of low-level system software building blocks originally implemented in C/C++ are currently being swapped for equivalent rewrites in Rust, a relatively more secure and dependable programming language. So far, however, no…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Elena Frank , Kaspar Schleiser , Romain Fouquet , Koen Zandberg , Christian Amsüss , Emmanuel Baccelli

Rust is a strong contender for a memory-safe alternative to C as a "systems" language, but porting the vast amount of existing C code to Rust remains daunting. In this paper, we evaluate the potential of large language models (LLMs) to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Muhammad Farrukh , Baris Coskun , Tapti Palit , Michalis Polychronakis

Rust is a programming language that uses a concept of ownership to guarantee memory safety without the use of a garbage collector. However, some error messages related to ownership can be difficult to understand and fix, particularly those…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Ruochen Wang , Molly Maclaren , Michael Coblenz

Dubbed a safer C, Rust is a modern programming language that combines memory safety and low-level control. This interesting combination has made Rust very popular among developers and there is a growing trend of migrating legacy codebases…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Hanliang Zhang , Cristina David , Yijun Yu , Meng Wang

Rust is an emerging programing language that aims at preventing memory-safety bugs without sacrificing much efficiency. The claimed property is very attractive to developers, and many projects start using the language. However, can Rust…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Hui Xu , Zhuangbin Chen , Mingshen Sun , Yangfan Zhou , Michael Lyu

This paper complements "Writing R Extensions," the official guide for writing R extensions, for those interested in developing R packages using Rust. It highlights idiosyncrasies of R and Rust that must be addressed by any integration and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-17 David B. Dahl

This document contains a description of a Common Lisp extension that allows a programmer to write functional programs that use "normal order" evaluation, as in "non-strict" languages like Haskell. The extension is relatively…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-12-04 Marco Antoniotti

It is now commonplace for organizations to pay developers to work on specific open source software (OSS) projects to pursue their business goals. Such paid developers work alongside voluntary contributors, but given the different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Yuxia Zhang , Mian Qin , Klaas-Jan Stol , Minghui Zhou , Hui Liu

This note is meant to give people who are familiar with the functional programming language Haskell a concise overview of Clean language elements and how they differ from Haskell.

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Mart Lubbers , Peter Achten

Rust claims to advance industrial programming by bridging the gap between low-level systems programming and high-level application programming. At the heart of the argument that this enables programmers to build more reliable and efficient…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Aaron Weiss , Olek Gierczak , Daniel Patterson , Amal Ahmed

Existing C to Rust translation techniques fail to balance quality and scalability: transpilation-based approaches scale to large projects but produce code with poor safety, idiomaticity, and readability. In contrast, LLM-based techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Saman Dehghan , Tianran Sun , Tianxiang Wu , Zihan Li , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand

A functional hardware description language enables students to gain a working understanding of computer systems, and to see how the levels of abstraction fit together. By simulating circuits, digital design becomes a living topic, like…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-01-23 John T. O'Donnell

Tock began 10 years ago as a research operating system developed by academics to help other academics build urban sensing applications. By leveraging a new language (Rust) and new hardware protection mechanisms, Tock enabled…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Leon Schuermann , Brad Campbell , Branden Ghena , Philip Levis , Amit Levy , Pat Pannuto

Despite extensive usage in high-performance, low-level systems programming applications, C is susceptible to vulnerabilities due to manual memory management and unsafe pointer operations. Rust, a modern systems programming language, offers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Manish Shetty , Naman Jain , Adwait Godbole , Sanjit A. Seshia , Koushik Sen

Prior research has extensively studied flaky tests in various domains, such as web applications, mobile applications, and other open-source projects in a range of multiple programing languages, including Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Tom Schroeder , Minh Phan , Yang Chen

We develop a simple functional programming language aimed at manipulating infinite, but first-order definable structures, such as the countably infinite clique graph or the set of all intervals with rational endpoints. Internally, such sets…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Bartek Klin , Michał Szynwelski

The Rust programming language is famous for its strong ownership regime: at each point, each value is either exclusively owned, exclusively borrowed through a mutable reference, or borrowed as read-only through one or more shared…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wannes Tas , Bart Jacobs

Refinement transforms an abstract system model into a concrete, executable program, such that properties established for the abstract model carry over to the concrete implementation. Refinement has been used successfully in the development…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Aurel Bílý , João C. Pereira , Jan Schär , Peter Müller

Developers rely on the static safety guarantees of the Rust programming language to write secure and performant applications. However, Rust is frequently used to interoperate with other languages which allow design patterns that conflict…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Ian McCormack , Joshua Sunshine , Jonathan Aldrich

The growing adoption of Rust for its memory safety and performance has increased the demand for effective migration of legacy C codebases. However, existing rule-based translators (e.g., \ctorust) often generate verbose, non-idiomatic code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yanyan Yan , Yang Feng , Jiangshan Liu , Di Liu , Zixi Liu , Hao Teng , Baowen Xu