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by Arnavion 2529 days ago
The article is most flawed because Microsoft has been using Rust for a long time already.

The MSRC article says:

>in a new blog series we will highlight Microsoft’s exploration of safer system programming languages, starting with Rust

so it appears the zdnet author misinterpreted this to mean it hasn't started using it yet.

As an example, https://github.com/Azure/iotedge had its first Rust code checked in in February 2018.

MS has also already been contributing to Rust and LLVM to get it working on Windows ARM32 and ARM64.

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Publishers will try to squeeze every click possible out of minor topics when they run out of ideas. Like when Microsoft anounced project Athens for Go last year: https://hub.packtpub.com/microsoft-announces-project-athens-...
Lol, yes this is ZDnet.

There are several azure services running at least some Rust and job descriptions for IOT stuff have mentioned it for months.