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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

This letter introduced a new R package 'coexist' which can perform species coexistence simulation and analysis. The package was initially developed for understanding the role of different combinations of varying species growth rates,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-11 Youhua Chen

Rust, a popular systems-level programming language, has garnered widespread attention due to its features of achieving run-time efficiency and memory safety. With an increasing number of real-world projects adopting Rust, understanding how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Mohan Cui , Penglei Mao , Shuran Sun , Yangfan Zhou , Hui Xu

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 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

Programming language documentation refers to the set of technical documents that provide application developers with a description of the high-level concepts of a language. Such documentation is essential to support application developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Filipe R. Cogo , Xin Xia , Ahmed E. Hassan

Pre-compiled binary packages provide a convenient way of efficiently distributing software that has been adopted by most Linux package management systems. However, the heterogeneity of the Linux ecosystem, combined with the growing number…

Computation · Statistics 2021-08-10 Iñaki Ucar , Dirk Eddelbuettel

Context: Poor usability of cryptographic APIs is a severe source of vulnerabilities. Aim: We wanted to find out what kind of cryptographic libraries are present in Rust and how usable they are. Method: We explored Rust's cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Kai Mindermann , Philipp Keck , Stefan Wagner

Surveys of computational science show that many scientists use languages like C and C++ in order to write code for scientific computing, especially in scenarios where performance is a key factor. In this paper, we seek to evaluate the use…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Willow Veytsman , Shuang Zhai , Chen Ding , Adam B. Sefkow

R is a programming language and environment that is a central tool in the applied sciences for writing program. Its impact on the development of modern statistics is inevitable. Current research, especially for big data may not be done…

Computation · Statistics 2017-09-21 Saeid Amiri

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise for program translation, particularly for migrating systems code to memory-safe languages such as Rust. However, existing approaches struggle when source programs depend on external libraries:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Hanliang Zhang , Arindam Sharma , Cristina David , Meng Wang , Brandon Paulsen , Daniel Kroening , Wenjia Ye , Taro Sekiyama

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

This paper presents an open-source, lightweight, yet comprehensive software framework, named RPC, which integrates physics-based simulators, planning and control libraries, debugging tools, and a user-friendly operator interface. RPC…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Seung Hyeon Bang , Carlos Gonzalez , Gabriel Moore , Dong Ho Kang , Mingyo Seo , Luis Sentis

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

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

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

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a fundamental tool for building high-performance computing (HPC) applications, enabling efficient communication across distributed systems. Despite its widespread adoption, MPI's low-level interface…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Nafees Iqbal , Jed Brown

R packages are the fundamental units of reproducible code in R, providing a mechanism for distributing user-developed code, documentation, and data. Docker is a virtualization technology that allows applications and their dependencies to be…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-23 V. P. Nagraj , Stephen D. Turner

Migrating existing C programs into Rust is increasingly desired, as Rust offers superior memory safety while maintaining C's high performance. However, vastly different features between C and Rust--e.g., distinct definitions and usages of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuemeng Cai , Jiakun Liu , Xiping Huang , Yijun Yu , Haitao Wu , Chunmiao Li , Bo Wang , Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Lingxiao Jiang

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