Microsoft has announced the latest version of its Rust for Windows project, version 0.9. Rust for Windows is a language projection for Windows, and lets developers use any Windows API via the windows ...

Microsoft has been interested in Rust for some time now, investigating its use as a type-safe and memory-safe alternative to C and C++ in systems programming tasks. With more and more of Microsoft’s ...

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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 has announced an early public preview of Rust/WinRT, or Rust for the Windows Runtime (WinRT), and has posted it on GitHub. The Rust/WinRT project is a "WinRT language projection" or software ...

Microsoft has quietly introduced LiteBox, a Rust-based, security-focused library OS designed to sandbox apps and reduce ...

Microsoft's Rust for Windows dev team announced the new v0.9 update provides full consumption support, meaning the language is now capable of calling any Windows API. That's done with a language ...