Microsoft has announced the latest version of its Rust for Windows project, version 0.9. Rust for Windows is a language projection for Windows, and lets developers use any Windows API via the windows ...

Microsoft has been interested in Rust for some time now, investigating its use as a type-safe and memory-safe alternative to C and C++ in systems programming tasks. With more and more of Microsoft’s ...

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Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

Rust has become a hot programming language lately, even being considered as a safer alternative to C/C++ by Microsoft's security team. So what is the No. 1 editor/IDE for "Rustaceans," whose favorite ...

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, ...

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

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 ...