Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

Microsoft has also called for greater use of Rust. In 2022, the CTO of the company’s Azure cloud called Rust to become the ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust

But an internal research project is looking at ways to automate the translation of millions of lines of code per month into ...

The great programming transformation: How AI and Rust are quietly dethroning C in Linux - and Windows

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

Microsoft aims to replace its legacy C and C++ code with the Rust programming language

Microsoft aims to replace its legacy C and C++ code with the Rust programming language across its largest codebases by the ...
ZDNet

Rust programming language: We want to take it into the mainstream, says Facebook

Facebook has joined the Rust Foundation, the organization driving the Rust programming language, alongside Amazon Web Services, Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Mozilla. Facebook is the latest tech ...
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C out, Rust in: Microsoft stock (NASDAQ:MSFT) gains with new code standardization plan

For years, tech giant Microsoft ($MSFT) ran on two specific coding languages, among others: C and C++ were widely used not ...

Microsoft Eyes Massive Shift From C/C++ to Rust With AI-Led Code Rewrite Plan

Microsoft may be gearing up for one of the boldest engineering transformations the software industry has seen in decades. A ...
Dark Reading

Google, Microsoft Take Refuge in Rust Language's Better Security

When Fortanix launched in 2016, the company made a decision: It would commit to the one-year-old Rust's programming language to benefit from its security strengths and performance. Seven years later, ...
Bleeping Computer

Tor Browser Will Feature More Rust Code

The Tor Browser, a heavily modified version of the Firefox browser with many privacy-enhancing features, will include more code written in the Rust programming language. Tor Project developers have ...
TechSpot

Microsoft adopts Rust to boost Windows security and performance

Recap: Historically, the vast majority of security issues encountered on the Windows platform have been memory-related bugs. Rust can provide a highly effective solution to this long-standing problem, ...
InfoWorld

Rust tutorial: Get started with the Rust language

Here’s everything you need to know to get started with Rust, from using Rust’s toolchain to creating projects, working with IDEs and third-party code, managing libraries, and more. Over the last few ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio Code Nods to Rapidly Rising Rust Language

[Click on image for larger view.] The rust-analyzer Extension (source: Microsoft). "Rust is a powerful programming language, often used for systems programming where performance and correctness are ...