The RustBelt and its Separation Logic

From International Center for Computational Logic

The RustBelt and its Separation Logic

Talk by Matthias Meißner
Rust is a systems-programming language whose expressive type system centers around the concept of ownership enabling both stronger, statically verified safety guarantees as well as lower level control compared to more mainstream "safe" languages. The RustBelt project provided some formal verification for those claims using a seperation logic for modelling rusts typing rules. In this seminar we aim at giving an introduction into the features of Rust's type system as well as into the stack of logical tools used to verify the properties it promises.