In a two-installment series, Stephen Crane and Khyber Sen, software engineers at Immunant, recount how they ported VideoLAN and FFmpeg AV1 decoder from C to Rust for the Internet Security Research ...

At least when it is in default A new study has found that Rust is pretty safe, when in its default safe mode. For those who don’t know, Rust has two modes: its default, safe mode, and an unsafe ...

Rust is now beginning to reach Windows developers as Microsoft looks to safeguard some of its most important core code. Windows Director of OS Security David Weston explained that Windows would ...

Nathan Sobo recently open-sourced Zed, a code editor that focuses on performance, integrates AI capabilities, and supports software teams’ collaboration out of the box. For performance, Zed ...

Rust for Linux? The move to make Rust a second language for developing the Linux kernel is gathering momentum. But there are still challenges ahead.

DARPA is launching the Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR) program, an AI-focused initiative aimed at "substantially" automating the conversion of C code into Rust. The programming ...

Rewriting Windows 11 kernel with Rust The switch from C++ to Rust aims to make the kernel more concise, secure, and efficient. Microsoft has already added a significant 36,000 lines of Rust code ...