The Benefits of Rust Adoption for Mission-and-Safety-Critical Systems

A recent Google survey found that many developers felt comfortable using the Rust programming language in two months or less. Yet barriers to Rust adoption remain, particularly in safety-critical systems , where features such as memory and processing power are in short supply and compliance with regulations is mandatory. In our latest podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) , Vaughn Coates, an engineer in the SEI's Software Solutions Division, sits down with Joe Yankel, i nitiative Lead of the DevSecOps Innovations team at the SEI, to discuss the barriers and benefits of Rust adoption.

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The Benefits of Rust Adoption for Mission-and-Safety-Critical Systems is an episode from Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series by Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute.

This episode is 19:38 long.

This episode was published on Sep 16, 2025.

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