Facebook parent Meta now encourages its engineers to use C++ and Rust programming languages for coding high-performance backend services. Rust, initially developed within Mozilla, is joining Meta ...

Programming language Rust has entered the top 20 of the Tiobe popularity index for the first time, but it's still five spots behind systems programming rival Go. There's growing interest in the ...

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s ...

Is it time to retire the legacy C and C++ programming languages, and turn to the high-flying Rust language instead? A prominent Microsoft official believes so. In a tweet on September 19, Mark ...

Google believes that the efficiency of developers using the Rust programming language is twice as high as when using C++. This was stated by Google’s Chief Product Officer Lars Bergstrom during a ...

C and C++ are fast, but they have “no guide rails”, says Ashley Hauck, a Rust programmer (or ‘Rustacean’, as community members are known) in Stockholm. For instance, ...

In its "C++/Rust Interoperability Problem Statement", the Rust Foundation names three key strategies for improving the interaction between the programming languages.

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon.

Ryan Levick explores some features that Rust brings to the systems programming world that make life as a system programmer easier. Levick: We're going to be talking about the fact that systems ...