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Kenny Kerr's blog post on this may also be of interest. In particular, it answers the question I was going to ask about how they're handling Win32 and WinRT in
by mwcampbell 6y ago
Kenny Kerr's blog post on this may also be of interest. In particular, it answers the question I was going to ask about how they're handling Win32 and WinRT in a unified way.
https://kennykerr.ca/2021/01/21/rust-for-windows/ https://kennykerr.ca/2021/01/21/rust-for-windows/
- jug 6y agoI wonder if Rust is becoming Microsoft's way forward for development rather than C++ (i.e. Rust for Windows rather than C++ for Win32), leaving .NET for higher level development? The bold introduction in the blog post surprises me, coming from Microsoft themselves who're right now hard at work on these individual and ununified technologies.
- pjmlp 6y agoHere is some of the internal advocacy going on at Microsoft. - Managed languages if you can afford a GC - Rust - C++ with Core Guidelines https://github.com/microsoft/MSRC-Security-Research/tree/master/presentations/2020_06_SSTIC https://github.com/microsoft/MSRC-Security-Research/tree/mas... Note that there are still some teams like Azure Sphere and Azure RTOS, which are only providing C based SDKs, so no everyone is on the same wave length.