Microsoft aims to replace its legacy C and C++ code with the Rust programming language across its largest codebases by the ...

The two languages currently play a major role in Microsoft’s products. C is deeply embedded in the Windows kernel and many ...

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 ...

Microsoft has a whole team dedicated to eliminating "every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030," which includes Windows ...

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

Microsoft is preparing for a sweeping internal transformation that could fundamentally reshape how its software is built and ...

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...

Galen Hunt's LinkedIn post suggested an ambitious project aimed at eliminating C and C++ from Microsoft's codebase by 2030, with Rust as a potential replacement. This announcement generated excitement ...

Microsoft engineer Galen Hunt has clarified that his comments about eliminating C and C++ were about a research project on ...

Chinese AI startup’s release is a major update to its open-source model series, aimed at multi-language programming and ...

MiniMax M2 was released in late October this year. The company stated that M2.1 demonstrated significant improvements in ...

Speculation arose after a Microsoft Engineer's LinkedIn post suggested C++ replacement In a LinkedIn post from Microsoft ...