Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
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Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
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Re: Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
#2I upvote almost any post "in Rust" here (yeah that's me) but this story went bit too far. It was just one job posting and so many sites acts like MS is going to ditch C#.
Re: Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
#3There is a reddit post where a dotnet developer on the MSFT team details why they are moving certain processes to Rust. TLDR, it is all about performance that scale.
Re: Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
#4Can they start by not needing a multiple gigabyte download and admin rights to get the rust compiler to work on Windows?
Re: Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
#5Just hire Yehuda Katz
Re: Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
#6What's the point of rewriting from C# to Rust, as C# is performant enough and already has memory safety? What will offset the huge rewrite cost?
Re: Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
#7What's the point of rewriting from C# to Rust, as C# is performant enough and already has memory safety? What will offset the huge rewrite cost?
I suspect this is the .NET runtime + libraries, not applications written in C#.
Re: Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
#8What's the point of rewriting from C# to Rust, as C# is performant enough and already has memory safety? What will offset the huge rewrite cost?
C# doesn't have ownership/lifetimes and the kind of safety that comes with them.
Also, at the scale of Microsoft’s core global services, when you are paying for the processing, fast enough (or “CPU efficient enough”) isn't the same as with common apps. Even small efficiency gains are going to yield sufficient savings to be worth a fair amount of developer time.
Re: Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
#9Can they start by not needing a multiple gigabyte download and admin rights to get the rust compiler to work on Windows?
Is that needed because the compiler accesses some higher privileged APIs?
Re: Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
#10Can they start by not needing a multiple gigabyte download and admin rights to get the rust compiler to work on Windows?
Is that needed because the compiler accesses some higher privileged APIs?
The MSVC-based compiler doesn't come with a linker, so you need the MSVC build tools to get it. One of the ways to get the build tools is to install Visual Studio, which is fairly large.