How much support does Microsoft give to the Rust Foundation (financial and other...

daviddever23box · on Sept 20, 2022

They're a founding member - no idea as to the amount of financial support that Microsoft provides to the Rust Foundation....

mikeyouse · on Sept 20, 2022

Per their membership page, Platinum members provide $300k/year - but of course the real value is paying MSFT employees to work on Rust projects.

zibby8 · on Sept 20, 2022

Why does Visual Studio need to support Rust when VS Code has amazing Rust support?

qbasic_forever · on Sept 20, 2022

It's been ages since I last looked but IIRC Visual Studio is still the go-to and only real option for oldschool win32 programming (i.e. native windows, COM, etc.). I'm sure there are plugins and machinations to make VS Code competent at win32 too but for some companies and shops they're sticking to Visual Studio.

zibby8 · on Sept 20, 2022

It looks like this official MS Rust library adds a lot of Win32 support: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

It should work well with VS Code.

scoutt · on Sept 20, 2022

Never underestimate the power of creating UIs with a drag and drop editor. Command line tools for general users ended in the 80’s.

As far as I know, creating and dealing with UIs in Rust is a pain.

I’m waiting for MS Visual Rust.

thesuperbigfrog · on Sept 20, 2022

>> I’m waiting for MS Visual Rust.

My thoughts exactly.

Officially supported tools and SDKs are required in some industries. MS Visual Rust would be awesome!

thesuperbigfrog · on Sept 20, 2022

>> Why does Visual Studio need to support Rust when VS Code has amazing Rust support?

It's about 'skin in the game' and dog-fooding. If Microsoft is serious about Rust, they will use it internally and support it officially.

It's easy to give an opinion on Twitter about how everyone should use Rust and stop using C / C++ for new projects.

Officially supporting Rust in your enterprise software development tools and SDKs shows that you are serious and committed to what you say.