Microsoft said: “We are forming a new team focused on enabling the adoption of the Rust programming language as the foundation to modernizing global scale platform services, and beyond

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    9 months ago

    Both. Primarily most software written in C should be rewritten to a memory safe language, be it Rust or some other alternative. Because there is a lot of software written in C, this is a veeeeery long term goal, and will probably never be achieved 100%, but at least Microsoft seems to be on board with this.

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      9 months ago

      This article is about C# though, which is also memory safe. At least from the article (which is only a few paragraphs that doesn’t say anything more than the headline) there is no indication that microsoft is working on C or C++. (though we know from other sources that Rust is in the kernel where there is C and C++)

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        I personally assumed they were rewriting it from C# because C# is complete ass that got destroyed by Microsoft’s own insistence on feature creep. The language is a goddamn mess. That said, a ton of languages are a mess but they’re even more baked into shit than C#. Like, Javascript is a bad language, but it’ll probably always be around because…internet.