The Rust programming language has become quite popular over the past few years. In May 2023, Microsoft promised to introduce Rust in the Windows 11 kernel, and it delivered on that promise very soon ...

Recap: Historically, the vast majority of security issues encountered on the Windows platform have been memory-related bugs. Rust can provide a highly effective solution to this long-standing problem, ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, allowing a stack of familiar "Linux-like" command-line utilities to run ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. 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 ...

The Rust Project has issued an update for its standard library, after a vulnerability researcher discovered a specific function used to execute batch files on Windows systems could be exploited using ...

Microsoft is redesigning C#'s unsafe code model so unsafe operations are more explicit, scoped, documented and enforced by the compiler. A recent .NET Blog post says the planned model "most closely ...

For years Microsoft has been discussing moving to the Rust programming language for its dev teams in certain scenarios, primarily for the memory-safe aspects of the language as compared to C and C++, ...