As a software engineer, you could talk about your profession all day long. You love to share your knowledge and are always curious about other people's perspectives. What you love most is to stand ...

For a piece of wearable technology, Pebble has had a fairly “rocky” history. One of the most successful Kickstarters of its ...

Microsoft is applying lessons from Rust to C# in a planned redesign of the unsafe code model, continuing a years-long company focus on reducing memory-safety risks historically associated with C and C ...

Developing high-quality software isn’t an easy task nor is it cheap. Still, fixing bugs in the field is a lot more expensive ...

Rust will save Linux from C's inherent security weaknesses. Linux, faced with a flood of AI-discovered security problems, ...

.NET product manager Richard Lander has written a lengthy post describing how the team intends to improve the memory safety of C# by introducing a new model and redefining the existing unsafe keyword, ...

The FFM API makes accessing C libraries convenient but also presents challenges. Helper functions and best practices make it ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Rust mascot Ferris the crab welcomes attendees to RustConf 2025 in Seattle, where the community marked the 10th anniversary of the open-source programming language’s first stable release, and ...

In context: Rust is a general-purpose language designed for building fast and secure software. Its strong focus on memory safety aims to eliminate most memory-related bugs and security vulnerabilities ...