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 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 ...

Microsoft is bringing Linux-style Coreutils and native WSL containers to Windows to simplify developer workflows.

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'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 ...

Could Microsoft switch from its use of C, C++, and C# to other languages? A recent blog post from the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) suggested that it might well be looking at alternatives, ...

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 ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Windows 11 is going rusty, and we don't mean that someone left the operating system out in the rain for too long - rather that Rust is now part of the OS ...

Linux and Windows are quietly undergoing one of the biggest rewrites in their history, as artificial intelligence collides with Rust to reshape how low level code is produced and maintained. Instead ...

I'm interested in trying out Rust on Windows. And I'd like an editor with syntax highlighting, the ability to use crates, and a decent debugger. So far it seems that I can use Visual Studio Code + ...