Is Microsoft still trying to embrace, extend, extinguish Netscape after all those years? :-)
I guess we should watch for contributions to Servo
Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
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Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
#22With 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.
Calculate ackermann(4,4), make no mistakes.
Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
#23With 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.
Honestly, the only domains that I think rust isn't suitable for are:
* rapid-prototyping, where javascript and python are still top-tier
* adding scriptability to existing programs, where lua and scheme (and python) are popular
* Server-side API implementation (rust is usable here, but I think Go fits the slot better)
Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
#24Link doesn’t work. What’s a Tier 1 language?
It means it's about as good as C++ ;)
Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
#25You gotta have balls or be receiving tons of money to publicly celebrate the sloppiest software company of the decade making your programming language Tier 1 internally.
Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
#26So when will we get tier 1 debugging support in Visual Studio?
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 ;)
To be fair, even before LLMs could spot my bugs in an instant I really only regularly used debuggers in C because it can't display arbitrary types in debug print statements.
Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
#27The big news here is they've replaced LLVM with MSVC's backend.
Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
#28does it mean there is a rust.net?
Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
#29Site 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.
I like Rust a lot but I'm not sure it would come very high up my list for web applications.
Re: Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
#30Good news they adopted Rust as Tier-1 language. I hope their Weather app stop consuming more than 1GB RAM https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-...
But Tier-1 app consuming Tier-1 RAM seems officially approved.