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 ...

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 taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of ...

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ESET researchers provide a comprehensive analysis and assessment of a critical severity vulnerability with low likelihood of ...

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

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

Microsoft is planning a massive change to Rust by using AI-driven systems to rewrite its legacy C and C++ code at an ...

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 ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at ...