Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

ComputerGuru

So when will we get tier 1 debugging support in Visual Studio?

pjmlp

This is very big news, all major OS vendors that also have a role in C and C++ language tooling, now have diversified their options in systems programming languages for greenfield development. Additionally we finally get some public news about the MSVC integration rumors regarding Rust.

_joel

Site down, maybe they need port it to use Rust... They use wordpress

DidntUseIt

Link doesn’t work. What’s a Tier 1 language?

calvbak

This is great! Hope this trend will continue in the future; using a memory-safe language should be a top priority imo in context of the coming rogue AI swarms.

swiftcoder

I guess the big question is whether they are going to open up rustc_codegen_utc for use outside of Microsoft?

the__alchemist

With certain rough edges like complex traits and Async aside, rust is an S-tier lang in several domains. Of interest: - Embedded - PC desktop applications - Computationally-intense scientific programming. (Chem, structural bio etc) - OSes, drivers etc - High-performance tasks in general. CPU, GPU, etc. It's not a memory-safety one-trick pony; it's a well-rounded lang which has learned from its predecessors.

meerita

Good news they adopted Rust as Tier-1 language. I hope their Weather app stop consuming more than 1GB RAM https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-...

js8

Is Microsoft still trying to embrace, extend, extinguish Netscape after all those years? :-)

mtgh2s

You gotta have balls or be receiving tons of money to publicly celebrate the sloppiest software company of the decade making your programming language Tier 1 internally.

pornel

The big news here is they've replaced LLVM with MSVC's backend.

mgaunard

does it mean there is a rust.net?

petilon

If it is a tier-1 language why isn't it supported in Visual Studio?

macleginn

The text is mostly about rustc_codegen_utc; maybe this should be reflected in the title? Also the use of italics there is rather jarring.

larodi

ermm... which are the rust-native libs which enable winrt3.0 native apps?

this_user

Now their broken slop code is at least memory safe.

e4m2

From the linked Zulip thread ( https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/131828-t-com... ): > We are running different workloads including rustc perf suite. In general the runtime performance is on par with llvm. Not what I would've expected!

bryanlarsen

This is from rustconf. A lot of the focus at Rustconf this year has been C++ interop, Python Interop, Javascript interop -- it's no longer about "rewrite it in rust", it's about being part of the ecosystem.

VimEscapeArtist

M$ choosing Rust might be the strongest argument for picking Go instead

KingOfCoders

Fable migrated a Go/Wails project for me to Rust/GPUI and it's so much faster, there is the possibility of Rust to gobble up many more projects.