In an age where cloud computing has become the lifeblood of modern applications, Microsoft has unveiled Hyperlight, a groundbreaking virtual machine manager that's poised to redefine how event-driven applications operate at scale. Built using Rust, Hyperlight delivers a streamlined approach to...
The survival game Rust has garnered a significant player base since its launch, constantly challenging players with its intense gameplay and intricate mechanics. However, a recurring issue plaguing the player community is game crashes. Reports have circulated on various platforms about Rust...
Rust for Windows v0.9 has recently been released and includes full consumption support, along with several other updates! With completed consumption support, you can now call any Windows APIs (past, present, and future) using the Rust language projection. Rust developers have access to the...
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Win32 APIs provide powerful functionality that let you get the most out of Windows in your applications. While these APIs are readily accessible to C and C++ developers, other languages like C# and Rust require wrappers or bindings in order to access these APIs. In C#, this is...
We are excited to announce that the Rust/WinRT project finally has a permanent and public home on GitHub:
microsoft/winrt-rs
Rust/WinRT follows in the tradition established by C++/WinRT of building language projections for the Windows Runtime using standard languages and compilers, providing a...
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This Saturday 9th of November, there will be a keynote from Microsoft engineers Ryan Levick and Sebastian Fernandez at RustFest Barcelona. They will be talking about why Microsoft is exploring Rust adoption, some of the challenges we’ve faced in this process, and the future of Rust adoption in...
Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), I worked on the safe systems programming languages (SSPL) team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog. My job was to port a security...
I interned with Microsoft as a Software Engineering Intern in the MSRC UK team in Cheltenham this past summer. I worked in the Safe Systems Programming Language (SSPL) group, which explores safe programming languages as a proactive measure against memory-safety related vulnerabilities. This blog...
Azure IoT Edge is an open source, cross platform software project from the Azure IoT team at Microsoft that seeks to solve the problem of managing distribution of compute to the edge of your on-premise network from the cloud. This post explains some of the rationale behind our choice of Rust as...
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I have a Dovo "Best Quality" straight razor, made in Solingen, Germany, which is reknown to be where the best razors are made. I bought it used on eBay, but it looked as good as new when I got it. For various reasons, I've never used it and it sat on top of the vanity cabinet for the last...