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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…

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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

Rust is an emerging programming language designed for the development of systems software. To facilitate the reuse of Rust code, crates.io, as a central package registry of the Rust ecosystem, hosts thousands of third-party Rust packages.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Xiaoye Zheng , Zhiyuan Wan , Yun Zhang , Rui Chang , David Lo

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 successfully applies ownership types to control memory allocation. This restricts the programs' topologies to the point where doubly-linked lists cannot be programmed in Safe Rust. We sketch how more flexible "local" ownership could be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-03 James Noble , Julian Mackay , Tobias Wrigstad

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

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 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, 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 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

Due to their pedagogical advantages, large final projects in information visualization courses have become standard practice. Students take on a client--real or simulated--a dataset, and a vague set of goals to create a complete…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Eytan Adar , Elsie Lee-Robbins

The Rust programming language is becoming increasingly popular among systems programmers due to its efficient performance and robust memory safety guarantees. Rust employs an ownership model to ensure this guarantee by allowing each value…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Vikram Nitin , Anne Mulhern , Sanjay Arora , Baishakhi Ray

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…

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This paper is about the interface between languages which use a garbage collector and those which use fancy types for safe manual memory management. Garbage collection is the traditional memory management scheme for functional languages,…

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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…

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We describe a novel masters-level projects class that teaches robotics along the traditional robotics pipeline (dynamics, state estimation, controls, planning). One key motivational part is that students have to directly apply the…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-04-02 Wolfgang Hoenig , Christoph Scherer , Khaled Wahba

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

Although Rust primarily intends to be a safe programming language that excludes undefined behaviour, it provides its users with the escape hatch of unsafe Rust, allowing them to circumvent some of its strong compile-time checks. This…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Alex Le Blanc , Patrick Lam

Rust relies on its unique ownership mechanism to ensure thread and memory safety. However, numerous potential security vulnerabilities persist in practical applications. New language features in Rust pose new challenges for vulnerability…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yu Zhang , Kaiwen Zhang , Guanjun Liu

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