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Rust is a new and promising high-level system programming language. It provides both memory safety and thread safety through its novel mechanisms such as ownership, moves and borrows. Ownership system ensures that at any point there is only…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Feng Wang , Fu Song , Min Zhang , Xiaoran Zhu , Jun Zhang

Ownership and borrowing systems, designed to enforce safe memory management without the need for garbage collection, have been brought to the fore by the Rust programming language. Rust also aims to bring some guarantees offered by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Danielle Marshall , Dominic Orchard

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

Programmers learning Rust struggle to understand ownership types, Rust's core mechanism for ensuring memory safety without garbage collection. This paper describes our attempt to systematically design a pedagogy for ownership types. First,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Will Crichton , Gavin Gray , Shriram Krishnamurthi

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

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

The Rust programming language provides a powerful type system that checks linearity and borrowing, allowing code to safely manipulate memory without garbage collection and making Rust ideal for developing low-level, high-assurance systems.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Andrea Lattuada , Travis Hance , Chanhee Cho , Matthias Brun , Isitha Subasinghe , Yi Zhou , Jon Howell , Bryan Parno , Chris Hawblitzel

Advanced type systems that enforce various correctness and safety guarantees--such as linear and ownership types--have a long history in the Programming Languages research community. Despite this history, a human-centered evaluation of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Kasra Ferdowsi

Rust is an emergent systems programming language highlighting memory safety by its Ownership and Borrowing System (OBS). The existing formal semantics for Rust only covers limited subsets of the major language features of Rust. Moreover,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shuanglong Kan , Zhe Chen , David Sanan , Shang-Wei Lin , Yang Liu

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

Rust is a young programming language gaining increased attention from software developers since it was introduced to the world by Mozilla in 2010. In this study, we attempt to answer several research questions. Does Rust deserve such…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-17 William Bugden , Ayman Alahmar

Rust, an emerging programming language with explosive growth, provides a robust type system that enables programmers to write memory-safe and data-race free code. To allow access to a machine's hardware and to support low-level performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Ana Nora Evans , Bradford Campbell , Mary Lou Soffa

Rust is gaining popularity for its well-known memory safety guarantees and high performance, distinguishing it from C/C++ and JVM-based languages. Its compiler, rustc, enforces these guarantees through specialized mechanisms such as trait…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zixi Liu , Yang Feng , Yunbo Ni , Shaohua Li , Xizhe Yin , Qingkai Shi , Baowen Xu , Zhendong Su

Rust has become a popular system programming language that strikes a balance between memory safety and performance. Rust's type system ensures the safety of low-level memory controls; however, a well-typed Rust program is not guaranteed to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Qihao Lian , Di Wang

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 aims to be a safe programming language applicable to systems programming applications. In particular, its type system has strong guardrails to prevent a variety of issues, such as memory safety bugs and data races. However, these…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Alex Le Blanc , Patrick Lam

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

Rust is a modern programming language that guarantees memory safety and the absence of data races with a strong type system. We present RustyDL, a program logic for Rust, as a foundation for an auto-interactive, deductive verification tool…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Daniel Drodt , Reiner Hähnle

Rust is a relatively new system programming language that has been experiencing a rapid adoption in the past 10 years. Rust incorporates a memory ownership model enforced at a compile time. Since this model involves zero runtime overhead,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Nikolay Ivanov

Reachability types are a recent proposal to bring Rust-style reasoning about memory properties to higher-level languages, with a focus on higher-order functions, parametric types, and shared mutable state -- features that are only partially…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yuyan Bao , Songlin Jia , Guannan Wei , Oliver Bračevac , Tiark Rompf
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