Microsoft Visual C++

This status means Microsoft provides full support for using Rust in production, including tooling, platform integration, and compliance with security standards.

A key project, Rusty C underscore Codigin underscore UTC, connects Rust to Microsoft's native Windows compiler backend, MSVC, enabling seamless interoperability with C++ and supporting hybrid Rust slash C++ projects on Windows.

In the comments, the community mostly expressed skepticism about Rust's immediate impact, criticizing the high memory use of some Windows apps and the slow progress on support in Visual Studio.

There was debate over whether Rust truly deserves Tier 1 status or if it's mostly a strategic move by Microsoft.

It's what I went to school for many, many, many years ago.

Shout out to Turbo Pascal and Visual C++.

All my programmer friends out there of a certain age will get that.

And I decided to give it a go.

All they need is the compiler software.

you know, Visual C++ or whatever it is they're using, and they just tell Grok or Claude or ChatGPT what they want the software to do, it'll create the source code for them.

They put it into the compiler software.

It creates the execution program.

Like, weirdly enough, not really.

Like, it's really expecting CMake, and then CMake can use whatever under the hood, right? Like, you can be, you know, MSVC or GCC or whatever.

But, like, it expects CMake to be there.

But it can't call my

Actually, that's, that technology's actually built into Visual, Visual Studio.

It's actually built into Visual C++.

It may be in other languages as well, I'm not sure.

But you can compile and link with, uh, /hotpatch and it does funky things to the binary that lets you, um, lets you hotpatch, literally hotpatch, um, without having to reboot.