Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of ...

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

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

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

Microsoft told Windows Latest that the company does not plan to rewrite Windows 11 using AI in Rust after an employee's post ...

Galen Hunt's LinkedIn post suggested an ambitious project aimed at eliminating C and C++ from Microsoft's codebase by 2030, with Rust as a potential replacement. This announcement generated excitement ...

Rust is a word associated with cars, usually made in Britain during the 1970s and 80s. In 2023, Rust could well be the word on the lips of every developer, CTO and CIO and for far more positive ...

Google's decision to use Rust for new code in Android in order to reduce memory-related flaws appears to be paying off. Memory safety vulnerabilities in Android have been more than halved – a ...

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, ...

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...

The top open item for Visual Studio on Microsoft's Developer Community feedback site asks for native Rust support, but the company has taken little action on the years-old request. Rust popularity has ...