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Microsoft say a lot of things. I'll consider listening when they will (re)write their stuff in Rust. TBH what MS does development-wise is irrelevant for me, si
by blub 7y ago
Microsoft say a lot of things. I'll consider listening when they will (re)write their stuff in Rust.
TBH what MS does development-wise is irrelevant for me, since I gave up on their platforms a long time ago. But if they put their money where their mouth is, it might give Rust the push it needs.
Wouldn't count on it though, MS can't even figure out what own development story to support for more than a couple of years.
- pjmlp 7y agoThen start listening. Azυre IoT Edge is written in C# and Rust, Visual Studio Code uses Rust for its search, the Web framework Actix is written by Microsoft employees and used internally at Azure, they are helping port Firefox to HoloLens and that included hiring Rust devs.
- blub 7y agoFirst of all, thanks for letting me know which Rust projects MS are directly or indirectly involved in. It's more than I expected, but only because my expectations were very low. Do you consider that list in any way impressive or representative for the MS organization? I mean writing the search function of their hobby project text editor in language X is not exactly a ringing endorsement. Neither is anything which has IoT in its name.
- pjmlp 7y agoMicrosoft security advisor for new projects is C#, Rust and C++ with Core Guidelines profile. So yes, I find relevant that an IT gigant actually cares to spend money on Rust, regardless how much. Rome wasn't built in a day.