Rust rolls out critical fix for Windows vulnerability and urges immediate updating
A critical vulnerability has been identified in the programming language Rust, potentially allowing attackers to execute malicious commands on Windows machines. The Rust team quickly released version 1.77.2 to address the vulnerability, although it affects more languages than just Rust.
The vuln... Read more
Google: new code increasingly written in ‘memory safe’ languages like Rust
Google expects to increasingly use 'memory safe' programming languages like Rust for its code. In widely used -and now decades old- languages like C and C++, bugs caused by errors in memory management are commonplace. However, these languages are so ubiquitous that it makes more sense to transition... Read more
Google pledges million to Rust for interoperability with C++
Google has pledged $1 million (€931,000) to the Rust Foundation. With this money, the technology giant intends to contribute to an initiative to interoperate Rust code with legacy C++ code bases.
The Interop Initiative, aims to "slowly migrate current C++ to Rust." There has been an enthusiast... Read more
Microsoft continues push to switch code over to Rust
Microsoft is continuing the push to move over all of its C code to Rust in all of its product portfolios. The company is doing this as part of an acceleration of the previously established "Rewrite Everything in Rust" initiative.
Microsoft has been working for some time to replace the currently ... Read more
Rust programming language takes more shape thanks to specification team
The popular Rust programming language is going to develop its own specification. The composition of this specification will be an ongoing process and will be based primarily on current and future Rust versions.
By creating a specification, Rust's developers want to provide a proper description o... Read more
Why the Rust programming language keeps getting more popular
Rust has been growing in popularity for years. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its intention to rewrite part of the Windows kernel in the Rust programming language. Recently, the company revealed that it was aiming to allow the development of OS drivers in Rust as well. Amazon, Dropbox and C... Read more
Microsoft releases more Rust features for Windows kernel
Microsoft has been working on initiatives around the Rust programming language for a while. In late April, for example, it revealed that it was working on a major project to rewrite Windows in this more efficient code. Now it is releasing more features for Windows' Rust kernel in the latest Insider... Read more
Rust 1.70.0 with focus on reliability and efficiency is out
Rust 1.70.0 was recently released. The new version includes features for more stability.
In the new version, the developers of the programming language state that the most important update is that the so-called "sparse protocol" for reading "crates.io index" is now activated by default. The use ... Read more
‘Microsoft is rewriting its core code in Rust’
Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in the Rust programming language, The Register reports. The switch to a more memory-safe language is said to be underway already, but the move will take some time.
Microsoft has one of the world's largest C/C++ codebases, and all of its core products... Read more
JetBrains releases results for the State of Developer Ecosystem 2022
The tools vendor has released the results of their sixth annual survey on the landscape of the developer community.
Each year, JetBrains conducts their Developer Ecosystem Survey to deliver an overview of the trends and complexion of the development world. The 2022 survey report was created from... Read more