The Rust Revolution:
Safety Meets Speed
The Billion Dollar Bug
Why are Microsoft, Google, and the White House urging devs to abandon C++?
70% of Vulnerabilities
Microsoft and Google independently analyzed their security patches over the last decade. The result was shocking:
~70% of all severe bugs were caused by memory safety issues.
- Buffer Overflows: Writing data past the end of an array.
- Use-After-Free: Accessing memory after it has been deleted.
- Data Races: Two threads accessing memory simultaneously without sync.
These bugs allow hackers to crash systems or execute malicious code. C and C++ leave memory management to the human. And humans make mistakes.
The Rust Solution
Rust solves this at compile time using a concept called Ownership & Borrowing.
A compiler feature that strictly enforces rules about how memory is accessed. If your code isn't memory safe, it won't compile.
Safety checks happen during compilation, not execution. The resulting binary is just as fast as C++.
Speed Without Compromise
Rust proves you don't need a Garbage Collector to be safe.
Execution Speed
*Based on The Computer Language Benchmarks Game (2025).
Memory Footprint
Rust has no runtime or garbage collector, making it ideal for embedded devices.
Safety
- Null Pointer Exceptions: Impossible
- Data Races: Impossible
- Dangling Pointers: Impossible
*In safe Rust code.
Who is Hiring Rustaceans?
It's not just for hobbyists anymore. The biggest tech giants are all-in.
Microsoft
Rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust.
Android (Google)
21% of new native code in Android 13+ is Rust.
Discord
Switched from Go to Rust to fix latency spikes.
Salary Insights (2025)
Rust developers are among the highest-paid in the industry due to scarcity and high demand in systems programming and blockchain (Solana, Polkadot).