Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

When a senior Microsoft engineer floated the idea of wiping out C and C++ from the company’s codebase by 2030, the remark ...

A job posting by a Microsoft engineer sparked excitement about a project “to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030”, replacing it with Rust — but alas for fans of the memory-safe ...

Linux and Windows are quietly undergoing one of the biggest rewrites in their history, as artificial intelligence collides ...

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, professionalizes supply-chain defenses, and scales coordinated security ...

Microsoft is internally mulling a new project codenamed “Project Strong ARMed,” according to a new job listing.

But an internal research project is looking at ways to automate the translation of millions of lines of code per month into other languages. A job posting by a Microsoft engineer sparked excitement ...