The Rust rewrite is the least interesting part, says Microsoft dev about Copilot SDK
martinwoodward · x · 2026-09-17
Microsoft's martin woodward argues that while "GitHub Copilot SDK moved from TypeScript to Rust" is the headline, it's the least interesting part of stephentoub's in-depth post — how the migration was done is the real story, unpacked in this thread.
Related event: GitHub Rewrote Its Copilot Runtime in 800K Lines of Rust Using Copilot(10 posts)→
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