Hardening Memory-Safe Languages: An Empirical Study of Attack Mitigations in Rust and Go Binaries

This research paper examines how well attack mitigations (security protections built into code) actually work in Rust and Go, two programming languages designed to be memory-safe (meaning they prevent common memory-related bugs that attackers often exploit). The study analyzes real compiled programs to see whether these language protections hold up against real-world attacks.