Microsoft is eyeing the Rust programming language as a safer replacement of C/C++ code after discovering just how many security problems are caused by memory corruption bugs. That news comes in a new ...

Cloud-computing giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has outlined the reasons its engineers are embracing Rust, including that it's a more energy-efficient programming language. Just seven years ago, the ...

Overview: C and C++ remain the most important languages for fast, low-memory embedded devices. Newer languages like Rust and Python bring safety, simplicity, an ...

Software teams at Google and other Rust adopters see safer code when using the memory-safe language, and also fewer rollbacks ...

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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 ...

After more than five years in the pipeline, Mozilla Labs and the Rust community have released the first alpha -- version 0.1 -- of the Rust programming language compiler. The Rust language emphasizes ...

Something to look forward to: Created by software developer Graydon Hoare while working at Mozilla Research in 2006, Rust keeps growing in popularity and winning new supporters among big tech ...

Microsoft has announced the latest version of its Rust for Windows project, version 0.9. Rust for Windows is a language projection for Windows, and lets developers use any Windows API via the windows ...

Developers apparently did not listen to a recent White House advisory to move away from C++ and C over memory safety concerns, as C++ has climbed to second place in the Tiobe index of programming ...