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I 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
by jug 6y ago
I 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.