Rust is also being used more frequently now on reasonably sized projects. Last year, 34% reported using it for projects with at least 10,000 lines of code, whereas this year the figure for that ...

"NSA advises organizations to consider making a strategic shift from programming languages that provide little or no inherent memory protection, such as C/C++, to a memory safe language when possible.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published research looking into 172 key open-source projects and whether they are susceptible to memory flaws.