Microsoft has detailed one more area where it's engineers are using the Mozilla-created Rust programming language, a new project from a team at Azure to test WebAssembly modules in Kubernetes.

In 2025, something unexpected happened. The programming language most notorious for its difficulty became the go-to choice for the laziest form of programming imaginable.

Microsoft has announced an early public preview of Rust/WinRT, or Rust for the Windows Runtime (WinRT), and has posted it on GitHub. The Rust/WinRT project is a "WinRT language projection" or software ...

In context: Rust is a contemporary, general-purpose programming language designed to inherently ensure memory safety. Programs written in Rust are notably more secure, as various classes of bugs and ...