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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

Embedded software is used in safety-critical systems such as medical devices and autonomous vehicles, where software defects, including security vulnerabilities, have severe consequences. Most embedded codebases are developed in unsafe…

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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…

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

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

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

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

A program that maintains key safety properties even when interacting with arbitrary untrusted code is said to enjoy \emph{robust safety}. Proving that a program written in a mainstream language is robustly safe is typically challenging…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Marco Patrignani , Sam Blackshear

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To provide flexibility and low-level interaction capabilities, the unsafe tag in Rust is essential in many projects, but undermines memory safety and introduces Undefined Behaviors (UBs) that reduce safety. Eliminating these UBs requires a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Renshuang Jiang , Pan Dong , Zhenling Duan , Yu Shi , Xiaoxiang Fang , Yan Ding , Jun Ma , Shuai Zhao , Zhe Jiang

The Go programming language aims to provide memory and thread safety through measures such as automated memory management with garbage collection and a strict type system. However, it also offers a way of circumventing this safety net…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Johannes Lauinger , Lars Baumgärtner , Anna-Katharina Wickert , Mira Mezini

Unsafe Rust code is necessary for interoperability with C/C++ libraries and implementing low-level data structures, but it can cause memory safety violations in otherwise memory-safe Rust programs. Sanitizers can catch such memory errors at…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Oliver Braunsdorf , Tim Lange , Konrad Hohentanner , Julian Horsch , Johannes Kinder

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

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…

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