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Title: Rust is Now a 'Tier One' Language at Microsoft

Link: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/09/1...

The Register reports: When Microsoft's developers and engineers sit down to
code, they can now choose to work in Rust, which Redmond has added to its
list of canonical languages. "Rust now is a Tier One language at Microsoft,
and that just means that it sits among C++, C# and TypeScript as the best
supported languages for internal development in the company," explained
Victor Ciura, Microsoft principal engineer for the Rust tooling team, during
a keynote talk today at this year's annual RustConf, being held this week in
Montreal. Ciura said Microsoft has "paved a path" of tools and processes that
support local Rust development across the entire software development
lifecycle. Rust is no stranger at Microsoft and is already present in over
100 Microsoft project repositories. The company has built Oxidizer, a set of
crates to build scalable services in Rust, which have been used to build and
refine the Microsoft 365 core services such as Outlook, Word, Excel,
OneDrive, and SharePoint. The Copilot tech stack also owes quite a bit to
Rust... [C]ompany engineers built rustc_codegen_utc, a custom Rust compiler
code-generation backend that wires the rustc compiler directly into the
Microsoft Visual C++ internal toolchain for Windows... "The result is a
unified code generation platform for Rust and C++ on Windows" [Ciura wrote in
a blog post, noting that more than 100 Microsoft project repositories now
build with rustc_codegen_utc.] Still, Redmond running towards Rust is a
welcome development. In his 2025 RustConf keynote, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark
Russinovich noted that ~70 percent of Windows CVEs are memory issues. "One of
the things that I realized a long time ago is that no matter how much we
really want to make C and C++ better, we can't make it as good as what Rust
starts with," he said.

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