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Microsoft is quickly writing more and more Rust code these days. They rolled out Rust kernel components even before Linux, and their efforts actually include rewrites rather than making the API available to developers.
There's decades of code in Windows, but the successful conversion for DirectWrite font parsing is probably a sign of things to come. MS seems to even be porting some COM modules to Rust, which would be the last thing I would start to port (so many pointer pointers!).
True! Their embrace of Rust is certainly heartening to see.
Let's just hope they don't follow it up with the other two E's in their typical playbook.
Please do go ahead and name the last open standard that Microsoft intentionally destroyed.
EEE is the fucking boogeyman on Lemmy. You just mention it's name and a bunch of nerds shit their pants and upvote.
@masterspace @entropicdrift https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish#Examples_by_Microsoft
Unless I'm missing something, the most recent example there is from 2002 which, to my own horror, was more than 20 years ago.