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No, they're looking at migrating some core Office 365 services to Rust. This is the job posting: https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1633482/Princ
by Merad 3y ago
No, they're looking at migrating some core Office 365 services to Rust. This is the job posting: https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1633482/Principal-Software-Architect https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1633482/Pri...
At the scale of O365 it totally makes sense to look at a high performance non-GC language for your core systems that see the most traffic (I say this as a .Net dev).
- cebert 3y agoToo bad you have to be in the office 50% of time for that role.
- solarkraft 3y agoThat surprises me since I'd expect that you could get really far with hot path optimisation.
- adrr 3y agoNot sure microsoft’s problem is the language. Their frontend JavaScript code is bloated and slow. It makes office365 feel slow and there are so many bugs in the azure management tools. I assume the backend code has the same low quality.
- Merad 3y agoI imagine the goal here is to optimize MS' compute and hosting costs. The core pieces of O365 probably handle many billions of requests per day. At that scale even small optimizations can be worth millions a year in cost savings.
- struant 3y agoSounds like a skill issue to me. Their code sucks and they want to blame the language.