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 ...

A critical vulnerability in the Rust standard library could be exploited to target Windows systems and perform command injection attacks. The flaw was discovered by a security engineer from Flatt ...

Microsoft gave a status update today on its experiments on using the Rust programming language instead of C and C++ to write Windows components. In short, the experiments have gone well, and engineers ...