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Ownership is the concept of tracking aliases and mutations to data, useful for both memory safety and system design. The Rust programming language implements ownership via the borrow checker, a static analyzer that extends the core type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Will Crichton

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 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

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 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

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 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

Rust represents a major advancement in production programming languages because of its success in bridging the gap between high-level application programming and low-level systems programming. At the heart of its design lies a novel…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Aaron Weiss , Daniel Patterson , Amal Ahmed

Rust is a programming language that uses a concept of ownership to guarantee memory safety without the use of a garbage collector. However, some error messages related to ownership can be difficult to understand and fix, particularly those…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Ruochen Wang , Molly Maclaren , Michael Coblenz

Rust's novel type system has proved an attractive target for verification and program analysis tools, due to the rich guarantees it provides for controlling aliasing and mutability. However, fully understanding, extracting and exploiting…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zachary Grannan , Aurel Bílý , Jonáš Fiala , Jasper Geer , Markus de Medeiros , Peter Müller , Alexander J. Summers

Statically analyzing information flow, or how data influences other data within a program, is a challenging task in imperative languages. Analyzing pointers and mutations requires access to a program's complete source. However, programs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Will Crichton , Marco Patrignani , Maneesh Agrawala , Pat Hanrahan

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

This paper documents a year-long experiment to "profile" the process of learning a programming language: gathering data to understand what makes a language hard to learn, and using that data to improve the learning process. We added…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Will Crichton , Shriram Krishnamurthi

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 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

Automated verification of functional correctness of imperative programs with references (a.k.a. pointers) is challenging because of reference aliasing. Ownership types have recently been applied to address this issue, but the existing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Takashi Nakayama , Yusuke Matsushita , Ken Sakayori , Ryosuke Sato , Naoki Kobayashi

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

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 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 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…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Hui Xu , Zhuangbin Chen , Mingshen Sun , Yangfan Zhou , Michael Lyu
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