Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K

At first glance, most users may not know how pervasive the Copilot runtime is. It backs the GitHub Copilot command-line interface (CLI), the Copilot app, the SDK and the GitHub Copilot cloud agent. It ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code's Copilot 'AI Pair Programmer' Improves Chat UI, Explains Rust Code

In Visual Studio Code 1.85, the dev team has improved the GitHub Copilot "AI pair programmer" in several ways, including tweaking the chat UI and providing more support for the Rust programming ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Native Rust in Visual Studio Is Top Dev Request, but Progress Slow

The top open item for Visual Studio on Microsoft's Developer Community feedback site asks for native Rust support, but the company has taken little action on the years-old request. Rust popularity has ...
ADTmag

VS Code Wants Coding Agents to Outlive the Chat Window

VS Code 1.138 lets developers move Codex sessions between ChatGPT and VS Code while preserving the conversation and project context.
techtarget

Rust vs. C++: Differences and use cases explained

Programmers have no shortage of choice when it comes to the language for a new project. C++ and Rust suit projects from browser-based software to video games, and each has advantages. C++ is an ...
techtarget

Rust vs. Go: A microservices-based language faceoff

When it comes to microservices development, programmers rely on fast execution, support for concurrency, service reliability and sophisticated error handling ...