He named it Rust, after a group of fungi that are highly specialised plant pathogens. They are, he says, “over-engineered for survival.” Rust 1.0, was released in 2015, and it has grown in ...

How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.

There are fads in programming languages, and new ones come and go, often without lasting impact. Now 12 years old, Rust took time to mature from the side project of a Mozilla researcher into a ...

The first stable version of Rust was released in May 2015. The programming language has established itself primarily due to its concepts for memory security.