Martins, B.S. JACoW Publishing Geneva, Switzerland 2226-0358 978-3-95450-209-7 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WECPR02 English 928-935 WECPR02 EPICS MMI framework interface target Contribution to a conference proceedings 2020 2020-08 https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WECPR02 https://jacow.org/icalepcs2019/papers/wecpr02.pdf Mozilla has recently released a new programming language, Rust, as a safer and more modern alternative to C++. This work explores the benefits (chiefly the features provided by Rust) and drawbacks (the difficulty in integrating with a C ABI) of using Rust in an existing codebase, the EPICS framework, as a replacement for C/C++ in some of EPICS’ modules.