Security News > 2021 > April > Most loved programming language Rust sparks privacy concerns
Rust developers have repeatedly raised concerned about an unaddressed privacy issue over the last few years.
Rust has rapidly gained momentum among developers, for its focus on performance, safety, safe concurrency, and for having a similar syntax to C++. StackOverflow's 2020 developer survey ranked Rust first among the "Most loved programming languages."
In early 2017, a Rust developer filed an issue on the Rust lang's GitHub asking, "How can I stop rustc [from] including system specific information such as absolute file paths of the source it's compiled from in the binaries it generates?".
"In 2020 people care about privacy and this can be a put off like rust-lang/mdBook#847 where people actively worked away from the project due to the disrespect of user privacy," said the developer referring to a Rust project called mdBook.
To understand if Rust considered this a vulnerability or planned on a bug fix, BleepingComputer reached out to the Rust core team for comment.
Although at this time, it is not known how or when the Rust team plans on resolving this issue, the increased pressure from the developer community seems to be steering Rust maintainers into an actionable direction.