Why I chose Rust for Medical Device Middleware

In medical devices, reliability is paramount. A “segfault” isn’t just an annoyance; it could mean a missed alarm or a halted therapy.

C++ has long been the standard, but managing memory manually is error-prone. Rust’s borrow checker enforces memory safety at compile time. This eliminates entire classes of bugs (buffer overflows, use-after-free) that are common in C/C++ codebases.