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Rust is a promising programming language that focuses on concurrency, usability, and security. It is used in production code by major industry players and got recommended by government bodies. Rust provides strong security guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 David Paaßen , Jens-Rene Giesen , Lucas Davi

Memory safety has long been a critical challenge in software engineering, particularly for legacy systems written in memory-unsafe languages such as C and C++. Rust, one of the youngest modern programming languages, offers built-in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sarah Bedell , Nazanin Siavash , Armin Moin

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 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…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Anna Zeng , Will Crichton

Despite extensive usage in high-performance, low-level systems programming applications, C is susceptible to vulnerabilities due to manual memory management and unsafe pointer operations. Rust, a modern systems programming language, offers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Manish Shetty , Naman Jain , Adwait Godbole , Sanjit A. Seshia , Koushik Sen

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 is a popular programming language in building various low-level software in recent years. It aims to provide safe concurrency when implementing multi-threaded software through a suite of compiler checking rules. Unfortunately, there is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Zeming Yu , Linhai Song , Yiying Zhang

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 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 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

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

The Rust programming language enforces three basic Rust principles, namely ownership, borrowing, and AXM (Aliasing Xor Mutability) to prevent security bugs such as memory safety violations and data races. However, Rust projects often have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jason Zhijingcheng Yu , Fangqi Han , Kaustab Choudhury , Trevor E. Carlson , Prateek Saxena

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 memory-safe language, and its strong safety guarantees combined with high performance have been attracting widespread adoption in systems programming and security-critical applications. However, Rust permits the use of unsafe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Tianrou Xia , Kaiming Huang , Dongyeon Yu , Yuseok Jeon , Jie Zhou , Dinghao Wu , Taegyu Kim

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

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 is increasingly being considered for safety-critical system development. However, established safety standards such as ISO 26262 require the use of coding guidelines that do not yet exist for Rust. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Marius Molz , Niels Schneider , Sven Lechner , Stefan Kowalewski , Alexandru Kampmann

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

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 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