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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 been working on integrating Rust into Windows for a while. A senior exec David Weston recently confirmed that Rust-based code will soon be booting inside Windows kernel. Update: Rust is ...

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 in a fresh plan being enacted by Microsoft to ...

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 + ...