Microsoft just gave up C/C++ (use Rust!)

19 thoughts on “Microsoft just gave up C/C++ (use Rust!)”

• LET'S GO!!

• Does this mean pop os and windows apps will become better compatible with one another in the future? The real threat of Linux and customer frustration is starting to show.

• yey!

• rip C 1970 – 2023

• I have always heard about how great RusT is, but reality tells me that there is no perfect thing in this world. Why hasn't anyone mentioned the drawbacks of Rust?

• Nice move

• What about C#? Is that out, or also on the way out the door?

• Well shit, guess i'll be working at Microsoft in the future. (As a linux user!)

• I like how you snuck in "into the Linux Kernel" at 1:12 !

• DO NOT TRUST MICROSOFT!!!

• Ok sure

• Microsoft has official Rust libraries for the Win32 API. It's just a thin veil over the C++ API though, and all the example code starts by opening an unsafe block. Neither safe nor ergonomic. Hopefully they make a nicer API that isn't too high level (slow).

• They didn't say anything about giving up C/C++. Clickbaiters are turds.

• I love c++ and I think that the coding standard should enforce good code, not the compiler. (const-correctness, the use of smart ptr, …)

  But still, this is a very good news from Microsoft

• Embrace, extend, extinguish

• Highly doubt it, they will integrate rust bindings to the kernel & W32API, therefore allowing layer-up Rust development, but they aren't rewritring Windows to be 100% rust.

• Seems like good news for Rust developers and for Microsoft Users.

• Finally C++ will DIE.

• When i was at Meta people were stsrting to use rust more. I think Rust is the recommended goto for scripts meta now.
  Btw even if 10million is pennies, its a commitment to allow devs to use it, support the training and the software over the long run. The cost is much higher in the long run and its the initial optionality it gives for Rust which is important

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