Microsoft aims to replace its legacy C and C++ code with the Rust programming language across its largest codebases by the ...

But an internal research project is looking at ways to automate the translation of millions of lines of code per month into ...

Microsoft engineer Galen Hunt has clarified that his comments about eliminating C and C++ were about a research project on ...

Wants to get all rusty Software King of the World, Microsoft, wants to burn its C and C++ bridges and will modernise its ...

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

Microsoft may be gearing up for one of the boldest engineering transformations the software industry has seen in decades. A ...

Microsoft has also called for greater use of Rust. In 2022, the CTO of the company’s Azure cloud called Rust to become the ...

Galen Hunt's LinkedIn post suggested an ambitious project aimed at eliminating C and C++ from Microsoft's codebase by 2030, with Rust as a potential replacement. This announcement generated excitement ...

The two languages currently play a major role in Microsoft’s products. C is deeply embedded in the Windows kernel and many ...

UNIX V4, the first ever version of the UNIX operating system in which the kernel was written in the then-new C programming ...

MicroQuickJS is a new project from Fabrice Bellard, who has created many other open-source projects, including QEMU, FFmpeg, ...

This was supposed to be the year when autonomous agents took over everyday tasks. The tech industry overpromised and ...