In 2025, something unexpected happened. The programming language most notorious for its difficulty became the go-to choice for the laziest form of programming imaginable.

SloppyLemming targeted Pakistan and Bangladesh with BurrowShell, a Rust keylogger, and 112 Cloudflare Workers domains in 2025–2026.

Are AGENTS.md files actually helping your AI coding agents, or are they making them stupider? We dive into new research from ETH Zurich, real-world experiments, and security risks to find the truth ...

The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.

Abstract: Rust is a memory-safe programming language that significantly improves software security. Existing codebases written in unsafe memory languages, such as C, must first be transpiled to Rust ...

Abstract: Modern embedded systems are evolving quickly, demanding innovative approaches to software development across various domains. Selecting the right programming language is crucial for ...

Need for superfast loading of large JSON files and other configs across processes/workers in AI workflow orchestrators. uv package manager, which uses rkyv to deserialize cached data without copying.

Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of the decade, replacing it with Rust. “My goal is to eliminate every line of C ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

The Rust programming language continues to tally up wins against the venerable, yet still very popular, C and C++ languages. While technology firms and the US government have pushed software ...