Rust is Now a 'Tier One' Language at Microsoft
The Register reports: When Microsoft's developers and engineers sit down to code, they can now choose to work in Rust, which Redmond has added to its list of canonical languages. "Rust now is a Tier One language at Microsoft, and that just means that it sits among C++, C# and TypeScript as the best supported languages for internal development in the company," explained Victor Ciura, Microsoft…
Microsoft has officially designated Rust as one of its Tier One programming languages, joining C++, C# and TypeScript as the best supported languages for internal development at the company. Victor Ciura, a principal engineer for the Rust tooling team at Microsoft, announced this during a keynote at the recent RustConf. Rust has been used in over 100 Microsoft project repositories and has contributed to critical components like the Microsoft 365 core services and the Copilot tech stack.
Microsoft has also developed Oxidizer, a set of crates to build scalable services in Rust, and rustc_codegen_utc, a custom Rust compiler code-generation backend that integrates Rust with the Microsoft Visual C++ internal toolchain for Windows. This move comes as Microsoft seeks to address the high number of memory-related vulnerabilities in Windows, with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich stating that Rust starts with a stronger foundation compared to C and C++ in terms of security.
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