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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Rust for Windows development team has announced that their latest update provides full consumption support, which means the language is now capable of calling any Windows API. Rust for ...

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 is gradually integrating Rust into the Windows kernel and is also gradually converting Windows driver development. Microsoft is taking stock. Due to the complexity of the Windows kernel API, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...