The Rust Foundation, which supports the development of the popular open-source Rust programming language, today shared that Google LLC had made a $1 million contribution specifically earmarked for a ...

WhatsApp migrated 160,000 lines of C++ to Rust to eliminate memory-safety bugs. Here’s how compiler-level security changed its threat model.

Some basic Rust syntax. Differences that exist between Rust and C/C++. Rust is the rising darling in the safe and secure programming arena. The challenge these days is that it’s changing as we speak, ...

Facebook parent Meta now encourages its engineers to use C++ and Rust programming languages for coding high-performance backend services. Rust, initially developed within Mozilla, is joining Meta as ...

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For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...

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 ...

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 ...

As safety-critical industries move beyond experimentation and toward production-grade adoption of Rust, 2026 marks a pivotal transition from promise to practical assurance.

C language tops Tiobe’s index of language popularity for a second month, while Rust cracks the top 20 for the first time The C programming language has kept the top spot in the Tiobe language ...