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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

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

Although Rust ensures memory safety by default, it also permits the use of unsafe code, which can introduce memory safety vulnerabilities if misused. Unfortunately, existing tools for detecting memory bugs in Rust typically exhibit limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Georgios Androutsopoulos , Antonio Bianchi

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

Refinement transforms an abstract system model into a concrete, executable program, such that properties established for the abstract model carry over to the concrete implementation. Refinement has been used successfully in the development…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Aurel Bílý , João C. Pereira , Jan Schär , Peter Müller

Program safety (i.e., absence of undefined behaviors) is critical for correct operation of computer systems. It is usually verified at the source level (e.g., by separation logics) and preserved to the target by verified compilers (e.g.,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jinhua Wu , Yuting Wang , Liukun Yu , Linglong Meng

The Rust programming language provides a powerful type system that checks linearity and borrowing, allowing code to safely manipulate memory without garbage collection and making Rust ideal for developing low-level, high-assurance systems.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Andrea Lattuada , Travis Hance , Chanhee Cho , Matthias Brun , Isitha Subasinghe , Yi Zhou , Jon Howell , Bryan Parno , Chris Hawblitzel

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

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

Rust is a programming language that combines memory safety and low-level control, providing C-like performance while guaranteeing the absence of undefined behaviors by default. Rust's growing popularity has prompted research on safe and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Aidan Z. H. Yang , Yoshiki Takashima , Brandon Paulsen , Josiah Dodds , Daniel Kroening

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

As embedded systems grow in complexity and scale due to increased functional diversity, component-based development (CBD) emerges as a solution to streamline their architecture and enhance functionality reuse. CBD typically utilizes the C…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Nao Yoshimura , Hiroshi Oyama , Takuya Azumi

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 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

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 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

Existing automated verification techniques for safe Rust code rely on the strong type-system properties to reason about programs, especially to deduce which memory locations do not change (i.e., are framed) across function calls. However,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Federico Poli , Xavier Denis , Peter Müller , Alexander J. Summers

Ensuring correctness is crucial for code generation. Formal verification offers a definitive assurance of correctness, but demands substantial human effort in proof construction and hence raises a pressing need for automation. The primary…

Large language models (LLMs) are now widely used to draft and refactor code, but code that works is not necessarily secure. We evaluate secure code generation using the Instruct Prime, which eliminated compliance-required prompts and cue…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Arup Datta , Ahmed Aljohani , Hyunsook Do

Rust programming language is gaining popularity rapidly in building reliable and secure systems due to its security guarantees and outstanding performance. To provide extra functionalities, the Rust compiler introduces Rust unstable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Chenghao Li , Yifei Wu , Wenbo Shen , Zichen Zhao , Rui Chang , Chengwei Liu , Yang Liu , Kui Ren