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 ...

A job posting by a Microsoft engineer sparked excitement about a project “to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft ...

Microsoft told Windows Latest that the company does not plan to rewrite Windows 11 using AI in Rust after an employee's post ...

A few days ago, a Microsoft manager was looking for personnel for the Rust porting of all C/C++ code – everything was to be ...

Could Microsoft switch from its use of C, C++, and C# to other languages? A recent blog post from the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) suggested that it might well be looking at alternatives, ...

The two languages currently play a major role in Microsoft’s products. C is deeply embedded in the Windows kernel and many ...

Apple's Swift programming language and Google's Flutter UI framework for its Dart programming language have arrived for Windows 10. Swift is Apple's open-source, general-purpose programming language ...

How to use ncurses to manipulate your terminal screen. In my article series about programming for the text console using the ncurses library, I showed you how to draw text on the screen and use basic ...

With the launch of Windows 8.1 now just a couple of days away for Windows 8 users, Microsoft will also debut a new version of its SkyDrive app for the operating system. In a blog post today, Microsoft ...

Much of modern operating system functionality happens in and around the kernel. That’s a problem when you’re implementing monitoring and observability tools or adding low-level security tools because ...