Tag: Rust

June 28, 2023

Proponents of the Rust programming language have formed the Rust Leadership Council, to serve as the top-level governance body of the Rust Project. The change follows some disgruntlement in the Rust community over the project’s leadership and governance. Announced June […]

June 15, 2023

For the 11th consecutive year, web development staple JavaScript was the most commonly used programming language among developers participating in Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey. JavaScript was also the language that most developers surveyed desire, or want to use, followed […]

January 9, 2023

Blackberry and Elektrobit have announced a collaboration to support the Rust programming language in their automotive software development, which they report is “quickly gaining momentum” in the industry. Rust is a memory-safe language that promises to provide a secure foundation […]

October 26, 2022

As enterprises see an unprecedented increase in real-time data analytics, InfluxDB on Wednesday said that it was releasing a next-generation time series engine for its managed database service InfluxDB Cloud. Time series data, according to market research firm IDC, can […]

September 21, 2022

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has reportedly committed to bringing Rust to the operating system. In an email received by ZDNet(opens in new tab), Torvalds said that the programming language will make it to version 6.1 of the Linux OS “unless […]

February 17, 2022

Use of the Rust programming language is on the rise, with respondents to a recent survey about the language reporting an uptick in weekly usage. However, some users also reported struggles. Among those surveyed who are using Rust, 81% were […]

October 6, 2021

Fast, safe, easy to write—pick two. That’s been the state of software development for a good long time now. Languages that emphasize convenience and safety tend to be slow (like Python). Languages that emphasize performance tend to be difficult to […]

April 7, 2021

Google on Tuesday announced that its open source version of the Android operating system will add support for Rust programming language in a bid to prevent memory safety bugs. To that end, the company has been building parts of the […]

April 29, 2016

Mozilla is revising its Rust language’s compiler to achieve faster-compiling, faster-running, and more precisely type-checked code. The changes, as outlined in a blog post that went live yesterday, involve what Rust’s creators call midlevel intermediate representation (MIR). It’s an additional […]