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On 24/09/2022 08:52, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Apparently Microsoft does not want to use C/C++ anymore:

Yeah, they're 20 years behind, I came to that conclusion then.

> https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-languages-its-time-to-stop-using-c-and-c-for-new-projects-says-microsoft-azure-cto

Well, people and companies will follow like sheep.

> and going to Rust. No word about glorious VBA and illustrious C#, 
> though. The best ever inventions of computing era deserve no mention... 
> (:-))

They'll stay as they are but likely will move to being implemented in rust.

> Ah, GC does not sit well with them, who might think? (:-))

Go is weird.

> BTW, It seems that Linux kernel will rust as well...
> 

There was conversation about using zig as well a while ago.