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Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code (www.theregister.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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++)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, for this the only real argument is performance, I was answering in general.