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Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

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Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

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Link doesn’t work. What’s a Tier 1 language?

(Link worked for me ...)

This “Tier-1 language” engineering status for Rust means giving internal teams a paved path from local development to production: secure toolchain builds, productive developer tooling, quality workflows, deep platform integration, and compliance with the SDL requirements Microsoft software must meet.

Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

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With certain rough edges like complex traits and Async aside, rust is an S-tier lang in several domains. Of interest:

  - Embedded
  - PC desktop applications
  - Computationally-intense scientific programming. (Chem, structural bio etc)
  - OSes, drivers etc
  - High-performance tasks in general. CPU, GPU, etc.
It's not a memory-safety one-trick pony; it's a well-rounded lang which has learned from its predecessors.

Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Optimistic to assume that modern day programmers even know what a debugger is, or if they do, consider it as anything else than some weird ancient shibboleth only used by the greybeards ;)

Debugger MCP better

It’s all /skills now

Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

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post #5

Site down, maybe they need port it to use Rust... They use wordpress

A lot of infrastructure is going to be ported to Rust.

It's fantastic for websites and servers, and LLMs are very good at generating it.

The primary downside of Rust is the long compile times, especially with macros (serde, etc.) If that can be fixed, it will be sublime.

Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

#18

Link doesn’t work. What’s a Tier 1 language?

Tier 1 is the summit of summits - the summum bonum of languages, the highest order to which a language can aspire. Very few ever attain it. Non multa, sed multum: not many, but only those of extraordinary quality. Most languages remain forever in Tier 3, never passing beyond its gates. Of these, scarcely 1% ascend to Tier 2. And from that already distinguished company, a mere 0.1% possess the refinement, depth, and excellence required to cross the final threshold into Tier 1.

Consider what that means: Tier 1 represents roughly the top 0.001% of languages. Pauci sed electi - few, but chosen. The crème de la crème. The aristocracy of languages. Primus inter pares, yet standing at the very edge of what programming language greatness can be.

Ad astra per aspera. Through hardship, to the stars. Tier 1 is not merely another rank: it is the ultima Thule, the farthest frontier, the crown, the apotheosis.

Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

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Site down, maybe they need port it to use Rust... They use wordpress

A lot of infrastructure is going to be ported to Rust. It's fantastic for websites and servers, and LLMs are very good at generating it. The primary downside of Rust is the long compile times, especially with macros (serde, etc.) If that can be fixed, it will be sublime.

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