Rust - Cargo Cult?
summary
Microsoft reports Rust rewrites for Windows kernel components and tiny hypervisor pieces, plus ports that cut cloud service costs when migrated from .NET, delivering measurable throughput and lower ops spend. Engineering work includes updating SDL and CodeQL for Rust, adding developer tooling, and running a microVM in microseconds (hyperlight/Wasm runtime) for sandboxing. The hard lessons are costly crate review, dependency tracking and ergonomic C/C++ interop; many experiments succeed but require sustained maintenance effort.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:12Talk scope
- 3:44Rust tooling challenges
- 8:45Rust at Microsoft
- 13:01Interoperability hurdles
- 16:10Crate evaluation
- 19:42Rust adoption costs
