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Microsoft is seeking a software architect to port Microsoft 365 to Rust (www.techspot.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But why?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing wasm

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I’m guessing it’s for large enterprise customers. Microsoft provides it as a service so they have to deal with scaling and the hosting. Rust can help improve performance on these large systems were it counts and can reduce hosting costs.