Neowin News Feed for: C

Microsoft veteran wants to replace every single line of C/C++ code with Rust and AI

Usama Jawad — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:46:01 +0000

A Microsoft veteran has highlighted his goal to eliminate every single line of C and C++ code and replace it with Rust, through AI-assisted engineers who can write 1 million lines of code per month. Read more...

Self-replicating worm malware infects exposed Redis data store used for live streaming

Ishtiaqe Hanif — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:48:01 +0000

Sophisticated Rust-based malware infecting Redis data stores to self-replicate and inject payloads into servers. Researchers at Cado Security decompiled the activities to get identifiable indicators. Read more...

ISRG to begin making Apache HTTP Server more secure

Paul Hill — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:30:02 +0000

The Internet Security Research Group has begun a project to rewrite httpd components in Rust to address memory safety issues that currently affect httpd. A new TLS module will be made first. Read more...

Raspberry Pi Pico has gone on sale for just $4

Paul Hill — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:28:01 +0000

Raspberry Pi has announced the launch of a new microcontroller called Pico. It's powered by the RP2040 chip that Raspberry designed and built themselves. A free Pico is available with HackSpace #39. Read more...

Python replaces Java as second most popular language

Paul Hill — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 23:30:03 +0000

The TIOBE Index has put Python as the second most popular programming language, replacing Java. It's the first time in nearly 20 years that the TIOBE Index is not reporting C and Java in the top two. Read more...

Microsoft explains its .NET language strategy in detail

Usama Jawad — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 07:00:01 +0000

Microsoft has explained its vision for .NET languages, detailing how it plans to evolve C#, F#, and Visual Basic in the future so developers can make more informed business decisions. Read more...

Microsoft architect writes about project to add new extensions to C#

John Callaham — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:35:32 +0000

Joe Duffy, the leader of an operating system incubation project at Microsoft, has written the first details of a new set of “systems programming” extensions to C# that's been in the works for 4 years. Read more...