Deepu K Sasidharan

Security in programming starts from the programming language itself. The majority of CVEs we encounter are due to memory safety issues and I'm here to talk about how a language like Rust is the way forward in avoiding those. Rust is a great programming language. It is a developer favorite and is rapidly gaining a foothold outside of systems programming. It has the potential to become a great general-purpose language with little of the overhead of traditional high-level general-purpose languages. Rust is fast, safe, and sustainable. Today I'm going to take you through the strengths and weaknesses of Rust and why it will be a great general-purpose language. Beware, I'll be doing comparisons with your favorite languages.

Java 17 finally gave us the first incubator of Foreign Function & Memory API. Let's do a test drive of what is in store and see if it is good enough to replace JNI. Let's be honest, JNI is not that secure and is controversial and it's high time we move away from it and adopt FFI like in many other modern languages. But is the new API enough or do we need to consider external libraries like JNA or JNR-FFI? I'll showcase some examples of using the new API with some of my other favorite languages.