In this week’s The Long View: People won’t shut up about Rustlang, and Musk mandates Twitter teams return to the office.
Linus Torvalds Signals Support for Memory-Safe Rust Language
Linus Torvalds told attendees of the Open Source Summit Europe conference today that he is hopeful the foundational work needed to add support for the Rust programming language will be laid in a forthcoming version 6.1 of the Linux operating system. It would take several additional releases of Linux to add full support for Rust, […]
Rust Foundation Allies With OpenSSF and JFrog to Secure Code
The Rust Foundation announced today it is working with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and JFrog to help maintainers secure open source software created using the Rust programming language. Rebecca (Bec) Rumbul, executive director at the Rust Foundation, said even though Rust is a memory-safe language, there are still security issues that maintainers need […]
Rust in Linux 5.20 | Deepfake Hiring Fraud | IBM WFH ‘New Normal’
In this week’s The Long View: Linus says next release will support Rust, FBI warns scammers are getting hired in deepfake interviews, and 80% of IBM staff stay at home.
AWS Outage Outrage | Rusty Linux | ARM Latest
In this week’s The Long View: Amazon Web Services falls on its face, Linux’s move to Rust takes the next step, and the FTC stabs another fatal wound in the horrible Arm/Nvidia deal.
Using Rust to Build Distributed Applications
Rust is an open source programming language that was initially developed at Mozilla Research and became increasingly popular for building distributed applications. It has been referred to in the Stack Overflow Survey as “the most-loved programming language” by software developers for five consecutive years. Moreover, companies like Amazon and Microsoft have recently revealed that they […]
How the Nuts and Bolts of the Internet Are Evolving to Change the Way You Code
2019 was a big year for internet infrastructure, programming languages and platform development. In the last 12 months, we saw things like new connectivity in the sky and the sea and greater security of those connections with the growth of TLS 1.3 and certificate transparency. But three trends in particular stood out as having some […]
DevSecOps: Fortanix Adds Open Source Rust SDK to Build Encrypted Apps
There’s a lot of focus these days on DevSecOps as part of an effort to fix what’s generally acknowledged as a broken cybersecurity paradigm. But instead of trying to ensure every potential vulnerability is addressed before an application is deployed, another idea is gaining momentum among the DevOps community: Build applications that are secure in […]