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The Rust Programming Language has gained the attention of government security agencies, and even the White House, due to its unique blend of safety, performance and productivity. Rust is designed to ...

Memory safety issues are one of the leading causes of security vulnerabilities in computing systems, including embedded systems. In programming languages like C/C++, developers are expected to manage ...

Create handy command-line utilities in Rust. This article is about text processing in Rust, but it also contains a quick introduction to pattern matching, which can be very handy when working with ...

In Rust we Trust: Modern programming languages designed to enforce memory safety are gaining popularity. Rust, a language initiated by software developer Graydon Hoare while working at Mozilla, is now ...

Reasons abound for Rust’s growing popularity: it’s fast, memory-safe without needing garbage collection, and outfitted with world-class tooling. Rust also allows experienced programmers to selectively ...

At the Linux Plumbers Conference in Richmond, Virginia, Linux and Rust developer Miguel Ojeda gave the Linux kernel developers an update on the state of Rust in the Linux kernel. In brief, Rust Linux ...

How Rust deals with raw pointers. Complex data structures may have cycles, with separately allocated nodes that reference each other either directly or indirectly. Cycles present a challenge for ...

Memory errors such as out-of-bounds reads and writes and use-after-free bugs have plagued applications for decades, causing problems ranging from minor execution glitches to global security nightmares ...

Chromium, the open-source project behind Google Chrome, is enabling new support for Rust in its otherwise C++ codebase, if only in a limited fashion for now. Chromium, the project underpinning ...