Microsoft gave a status update today on its experiments on using the Rust programming language instead of C and C++ to write Windows components. In short, the experiments have gone well, and engineers ...

At first glance, most users may not know how pervasive the Copilot runtime is. It backs the GitHub Copilot command-line interface (CLI), the Copilot app, the SDK and the GitHub Copilot cloud agent. It ...

The switch from C++ to Rust aims to make the kernel more concise, secure, and efficient. Microsoft has already added a significant 36,000 lines of Rust code to the kernel, which has led to the ...

Microsoft is redesigning C#'s unsafe code model so unsafe operations are more explicit, scoped, documented and enforced by the compiler. A recent .NET Blog post says the planned model "most closely ...

For years Microsoft has been discussing moving to the Rust programming language for its dev teams in certain scenarios, primarily for the memory-safe aspects of the language as compared to C and C++, ...

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, ...

Microsoft is starting to explore new programming languages to protect against security vulnerabilities. The company revealed it is turning to the systems programming language Rust to help developers ...

The company seeks software engineers to work on improving Rust compilers and tools for internal product groups, and to interact with the broader Rust community. Microsoft is building a team to support ...