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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 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

Interior unsafe is an essential design paradigm advocated by the Rust community in system software development. However, there is little official guidance or few best practices regarding how to encapsulate unsafe code and achieve interior…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zihao Rao , Yiran Yang , Hui Xu

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

Memory-safety bugs introduce critical software-security issues. Rust provides memory-safe mechanisms to avoid memory-safety bugs in programming, while still allowing unsafe escape hatches via unsafe code. However, the unsafe code that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Sangdon Park , Xiang Cheng , Taesoo Kim

Memory safety vulnerabilities remain prevalent in today's software systems and one promising solution to mitigate them is to adopt memory-safe languages such as Rust. Due to legacy code written in memory unsafe C, there is strong motivation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Momoko Shiraishi , Yinzhi Cao , Takahiro Shinagawa

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

The pinning APIs of Rust language guarantee memory location stability for self-referential and asynchronous constructs, as long as used according to the pinning API contract. Rust ensures violations of such contract are impossible in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yuxuan Dai , Yang Feng

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

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

Rust is gaining popularity for its well-known memory safety guarantees and high performance, distinguishing it from C/C++ and JVM-based languages. Its compiler, rustc, enforces these guarantees through specialized mechanisms such as trait…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zixi Liu , Yang Feng , Yunbo Ni , Shaohua Li , Xizhe Yin , Qingkai Shi , Baowen Xu , Zhendong Su

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

Context: The integration of Rust into kernel development is a transformative endeavor aimed at enhancing system security and reliability by leveraging Rust's strong memory safety guarantees. Objective: We aim to find the current advances in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Shane K. Panter , Nasir U. Eisty

AI agents increasingly run untrusted code on developer machines: shell commands generated by language models, third-party scripts retrieved at runtime, and tool plugins of unknown provenance. Existing isolation mechanisms impose tradeoffs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Cong Wang , Yusheng Zheng

Rust is a relatively new system programming language that has been experiencing a rapid adoption in the past 10 years. Rust incorporates a memory ownership model enforced at a compile time. Since this model involves zero runtime overhead,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Nikolay Ivanov

Memory corruption vulnerabilities are endemic to unsafe languages, such as C, and they can even be found in safe languages that themselves are implemented in unsafe languages or linked with libraries implemented in unsafe languages. Robust…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ana Nora Evans

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

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

In recent years, there has been a lot of interest in converting C code to Rust, to benefit from the memory and thread safety guarantees of Rust. C2Rust is a rule-based system that can automatically convert C code to functionally identical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Vikram Nitin , Rahul Krishna , Luiz Lemos do Valle , Baishakhi Ray

Isolating programs is an important mechanism to support more secure applications. Isolating program in dynamic languages such as JavaScript is even more challenging since reflective operations can circumvent simple mechanisms that could…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Damien Cassou , Stéphane Ducasse , Nicolas Petton