Rust is now a Tier-1 language at Microsoft
mmastrac · hn · 2026-09-10
A Rust Foundation guest post confirms that Microsoft has elevated Rust to Tier-1 status inside the company, putting it alongside C/C++. That entails full toolchain support, documentation, and engineering infrastructure investment — a major signal of the industry-wide shift toward memory-safe systems languages.
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