Rust Software Security: A Current State Assessment

Rust is a programming language that is growing in popularity. While its user base remains small, it is widely regarded as a cool language. According to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022, Rust has been the most-loved language for seven straight years. Rust boasts a unique security model, which promises memory safety and concurrency safety, while providing the performance of C/C++. Being a young language, it has not been subjected to the widespread scrutiny afforded to older languages, such as Java. Consequently, in this blog post, we would like to assess Rust’s security promises.