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Rust is an emerging, strongly-typed programming language focusing on efficiency and memory safety. With increasing projects adopting Rust, knowing how to use Unsafe Rust is crucial for Rust security. We observed that the description of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Mohan Cui , Suran Sun , Hui Xu , Yangfan Zhou

Rust is a modern systems programming language that ensures memory safety by enforcing ownership and borrowing rules at compile time. While the unsafe keyword allows programmers to bypass these restrictions, it introduces significant risks.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jialun Zhang , Merve Gulmez , Thomas Nyman , Gang Tan

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

The Rust programming language restricts aliasing to provide static safety guarantees. However, in certain situations, developers need to bypass these guarantees by using a set of unsafe features. If they are used incorrectly, these features…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ian McCormack , Tomas Dougan , Sam Estep , Hanan Hibshi , Jonathan Aldrich , Joshua Sunshine

Rust is a popular memory-safe systems programming language. In order to interact with hardware or call into non-Rust libraries, Rust provides \emph{unsafe} language features that shift responsibility for ensuring memory safety to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Merve Gülmez , Thomas Nyman , Christoph Baumann , Jan Tobias Mühlberg

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

The Rust programming language, with its safety guarantees, has established itself as a viable choice for low-level systems programming language over the traditional, unsafe alternatives like C/C++. These guarantees come from a strong…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Pantazis Deligiannis , Akash Lal , Nikita Mehrotra , Aseem Rastogi

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

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

Rust is one of the most promising systems programming languages to fundamentally solve the memory safety issues that have plagued low-level software for over forty years. However, to accommodate the scenarios where Rust's type rules might…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jie Zhou , Mingshen Sun , John Criswell

This article provides an introduction to Rust, a systems language by Mozilla, to programmers already familiar with Haskell, OCaml or other functional languages.

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Raphael Poss

New programming languages (e.g., Swift, Go, Rust, etc.) are being introduced to provide a better opportunity for the developers to make software development robust and easy. At the early stage, a programming language is likely to have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Partha Chakraborty , Rifat Shahriyar , Anindya Iqbal , Gias Uddin

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 systems programming language whose type system guarantees memory safety. For the sake of expressivity and performance it allows programmers to relax typing rules temporarily, using unsafe code blocks. However, in unsafe…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Nima Rahimi Foroushaani , Bart Jacobs

The astrophysics community uses different tools for computational tasks such as complex systems simulations, radiative transfer calculations or big data. Programming languages like Fortran, C or C++ are commonly present in these tools and,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma , Emeline Bolmont

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 general-purpose programming language that is both type- and memory-safe. Rust does not use a garbage collector, but rather achieves these properties through a sophisticated, but complex, type system. Doing so makes Rust very…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Michael Coblenz , Michelle Mazurek , Michael Hicks

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

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

The popularity of the Rust language continues to explode; yet, many critical codebases remain authored in C. Automatically translating C to Rust is thus an appealing course of action. Several works have gone down this path, handling an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Aymeric Fromherz , Jonathan Protzenko