Sunday, July 12, 2020

C++ => Rust @ Microsoft

Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming – The New Stack

"Ryan Levick, Microsoft cloud developer advocate, during the AllThingsOpen virtual conference last month, explaining, in a virtual talk, why Microsoft is gradually switching to Rust to build its infrastructure software, away from C/C++. And it is encouraging other software industry giants to consider the same.

C++ is not a memory safe language and no one would really pretend that it is,” he said.
In fact, Microsoft has deemed C++ no longer acceptable for writing mission-critical software. The industry sorely needs to move to a performant, memory-safe language for its low-level system work. And the best choice on the market today is Rust

In fact, Microsoft has deemed C++ no longer acceptable for writing mission-critical software"