Windows 11 is going rusty, and we don't mean that someone left the operating system out in the rain for too long - rather that Rust is now part of the OS in a fresh plan being enacted by Microsoft to ...
The switch from C++ to Rust aims to make the kernel more concise, secure, and efficient. Microsoft has already added a significant 36,000 lines of Rust code to the kernel, which has led to the ...
Update: Rust is now here in the Windows 11 kernel. At the recently held BlueHat IL 2023 conference, David Weston, Vice President, Enterprise and OS Security at Microsoft, took to the stage to discuss ...
Microsoft gave a status update today on its experiments on using the Rust programming language instead of C and C++ to write Windows components. In short, the experiments have gone well, and engineers ...