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Re:First steps with Rust by toyg on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:21AM (#26851808)
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that MS see Rust as a strategic “safer C” going forward. They have tons of legacy, dangerous C/C++ code across their traditional products (and Windows in particular), which could be slowly replaced with more robust Rust implementations.
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Re:First steps with Rust by iudqnolq on Sunday April 18, 2021 @01:10PM (#26854266)
Microsoft's c codebase is heavily annotated with custom annotations they check at compile time. It's not as powerful as Rust, but very cool.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/code-quality/using-sal-...

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Re:First steps with Rust by wongarsu on Sunday April 18, 2021 @11:05AM (#26853084)
Rust also fits perfectly into their general desire for robust drivers, for example with the Static Driver Verifier [1]. If a device driver misbehaves people usually blame Windows, so they spend energy on reducing the classes of bugs that can happen.

1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...

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Re:First steps with Rust by dsfbjornjaja on Sunday April 18, 2021 @10:27AM (#26852752)
Until Rust is replaced with something else (perhaps steel-lang or carbon-nanotube-lang). :)
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