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The development of safety-critical aerospace systems is traditionally dominated by the C language. Its language characteristics make it trivial to accidentally introduce memory safety issues resulting in undefined behavior or security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Lukas Seidel , Julian Beier

The Python programming language is best known for its syntax and scientific libraries, but it is also notorious for its slow interpreter. Optimizing critical sections in Python entails special knowledge of the binary interactions between…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Isabella Basso do Amaral , Renato Cordeiro Ferreira , Alfredo Goldman

Bento provides a new approach to developing file systems, with safety and high-velocity development in mind. This is achieved by using Rust, a modern and memory-safe systems programming language, and by providing a framework to run a single…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Peter-Jan Gootzen , Animesh Trivedi

Rusty Variation (RV) is a library for session-typed communication in Rust which offers strong compile-time correctness guarantees. Programs written using RV are guaranteed to respect a specified protocol, and are guaranteed to be free from…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Wen Kokke

The Rust programming language has garnered significant interest and use as a modern, type-safe, memory-safe, and potentially formally analyzable programming language. Our interest in Rust stems from its potential as a hardware/software…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-25 David Hardin

Embedded software is used in safety-critical systems such as medical devices and autonomous vehicles, where software defects, including security vulnerabilities, have severe consequences. Most embedded codebases are developed in unsafe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Ayushi Sharma , Shashank Sharma , Santiago Torres-Arias , Aravind Machiry

Rust aims to offer full memory safety for programs, a guarantee that untamed C programs do not enjoy. How difficult is it to translate existing C code to Rust? To get a complementary view from that of automatic C to Rust translators, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ruishi Li , Bo Wang , Tianyu Li , Prateek Saxena , Ashish Kundu

Rust is a memory-safe programming language that significantly improves software security. Existing codebases written in unsafe memory languages, such as C, must first be transpiled to Rust to take advantage of Rust's improved safety…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yubo Bai , Tapti Palit

We present \textit{kornia-rs}, a high-performance 3D computer vision library written entirely in native Rust, designed for safety-critical and real-time applications. Unlike C++-based libraries like OpenCV or wrapper-based solutions like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Edgar Riba , Jian Shi , Aditya Kumar , Andrew Shen , Gary Bradski

This system demonstration presents Nemo, a new logic programming engine with a focus on reliability and performance. Nemo is built for data-centric analytic computations, modelled in a fully declarative Datalog dialect. Its scalability for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Alex Ivliev , Stefan Ellmauthaler , Lukas Gerlach , Maximilian Marx , Matthias Meißner , Simon Meusel , Markus Krötzsch

Automatically translating system software from C to Rust is an appealing but challenging problem, as it requires whole-program reasoning to satisfy Rust's ownership and borrowing discipline. A key enabling step in whole-program translation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Victor Chen , Ayden Coughlin , Michael D. Bond

Rust is a low-level programming language known for its unique approach to memory-safe systems programming and for its steep learning curve. To understand what makes Rust difficult to adopt, we surveyed the top Reddit and Hacker News posts…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Anna Zeng , Will Crichton

Limbo is an open-source C++11 library for Bayesian optimization which is designed to be both highly flexible and very fast. It can be used to optimize functions for which the gradient is unknown, evaluations are expensive, and runtime cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Antoine Cully , Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis , Federico Allocati , Jean-Baptiste Mouret

Rust is a programming language that combines memory safety and low-level control, providing C-like performance while guaranteeing the absence of undefined behaviors by default. Rust's growing popularity has prompted research on safe and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Aidan Z. H. Yang , Yoshiki Takashima , Brandon Paulsen , Josiah Dodds , Daniel Kroening

Rust is a promising programming language that focuses on concurrency, usability, and security. It is used in production code by major industry players and got recommended by government bodies. Rust provides strong security guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 David Paaßen , Jens-Rene Giesen , Lucas Davi

Rust is a systems programming language that guarantees memory safety without the need for a garbage collector by statically tracking ownership and borrowing events. The associated rules are subtle and unique among industry programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Gongming , Luo , Vishnu Reddy , Marcelo Almeida , Yingying Zhu , Ke Du , Cyrus Omar

We propose a hybrid approach to end-to-end Rust verification where the proof effort is split into powerful automated verification of safe Rust and targeted semi-automated verification of unsafe Rust. To this end, we present Gillian-Rust, a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Sacha-Élie Ayoun , Xavier Denis , Petar Maksimović , Philippa Gardner

Rust is a memory-safe programming language that disallows undefined behavior. Its safety guarantees have been extensively examined by the community through empirical studies, which has led to its remarkable success. However, unsafe code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hui Xu

In rustworkx, we provide a high-performance, flexible graph library for Python. rustworkx is inspired by NetworkX but addresses many performance concerns of the latter. rustworkx is written in Rust and is particularly suited for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Matthew Treinish , Ivan Carvalho , Georgios Tsilimigkounakis , Nahum Sá

Unsafe Rust code is necessary for interoperability with C/C++ libraries and implementing low-level data structures, but it can cause memory safety violations in otherwise memory-safe Rust programs. Sanitizers can catch such memory errors at…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Oliver Braunsdorf , Tim Lange , Konrad Hohentanner , Julian Horsch , Johannes Kinder