It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++

Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ by thesuperbigfrog on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:16PM (#32905954)

How much support does Microsoft give to the Rust Foundation (financial and otherwise)?

Does Visual Studio (not VS Code) support Rust programming?

Are there plans for an official Rust SDK for Azure? https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-rust

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Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ by daviddever23box on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:21PM (#32905990)

https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

They're a founding member - no idea as to the amount of financial support that Microsoft provides to the Rust Foundation....

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Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ by mikeyouse on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:24PM (#32906015)

Per their membership page, Platinum members provide $300k/year - but of course the real value is paying MSFT employees to work on Rust projects.

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Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ by zibby8 on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:44PM (#32906187)

Why does Visual Studio need to support Rust when VS Code has amazing Rust support?

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Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ by qbasic_forever on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:53PM (#32906255)

It's been ages since I last looked but IIRC Visual Studio is still the go-to and only real option for oldschool win32 programming (i.e. native windows, COM, etc.). I'm sure there are plugins and machinations to make VS Code competent at win32 too but for some companies and shops they're sticking to Visual Studio.

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Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ by zibby8 on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:58PM (#32906294)

It looks like this official MS Rust library adds a lot of Win32 support: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

It should work well with VS Code.

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Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ by scoutt on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:52AM (#32910965)

Never underestimate the power of creating UIs with a drag and drop editor. Command line tools for general users ended in the 80’s.

As far as I know, creating and dealing with UIs in Rust is a pain.

I’m waiting for MS Visual Rust.

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Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ by thesuperbigfrog on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:58AM (#32911026)

>> I’m waiting for MS Visual Rust.

My thoughts exactly.

Officially supported tools and SDKs are required in some industries. MS Visual Rust would be awesome!

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Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ by thesuperbigfrog on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:52AM (#32910971)

>> Why does Visual Studio need to support Rust when VS Code has amazing Rust support?

It's about 'skin in the game' and dog-fooding. If Microsoft is serious about Rust, they will use it internally and support it officially.

It's easy to give an opinion on Twitter about how everyone should use Rust and stop using C / C++ for new projects.

Officially supporting Rust in your enterprise software development tools and SDKs shows that you are serious and committed to what you say.

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