Most modern programming languages use garbage collection, but developers have options for how it is implemented and tuned. Get an overview of how garbage collection works in languages such as Java, ...

Until recently, an explanation of memory management would have amounted to a description of a computer’s virtual memory implementation. Now however, memory management encompasses organizing frequently ...

Rust’s ownership and borrowing mechanisms guarantee memory safety at run time. Here’s how to use them in your programs. The Rust programming language shares many concepts with other languages intended ...

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 more or ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging developers to shift to memory safe languages – such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift – to protect their code from remote code execution or other ...

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged tech companies today to switch to memory-safe programming languages, such as Rust, to improve software security by reducing the ...