Victor Ciura is a veteran C++ developer who worked on Visual C++ and the Clang Power Tools. In this first episode of season 4, we talk to him about large-scale Rust adoption at Microsoft.
Victor works as a Principal Engineer on the Rust team in Microsoft’s Developer Division, building the compiler toolchain and libraries needed for the broader Rust efforts across the organization. He is a regular speaker at conferences like CPPCon and also spoke at EuroRust 2024.
We talk about Microsoft’s first steps with Rust, widespread implementation across key products and services, and Hyrum’s Law.
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Show Notes
About Microsoft
Microsoft is a company that needs no further introduction. From Windows to Azure, Microsoft has a wide range of products and services. A while ago, Microsoft started an initiative to bring Rust into core parts of their ecosystem.
About Victor Ciura
Victor is a well-known C++ expert leading Microsoft’s Rust adoption efforts. His work focuses on ensuring Rust interoperates with existing C++ codebases and integrating the Rust compiler and toolchain into the Microsoft ecosystem.
Links From The Episode
- Victor’s EuroRust 2024 Talk - Victor’s presentation on Microsoft’s Rust adoption journey
- TockOS - Embedded operating system written in Rust
- Google’s Fuchsia - Google’s open-source operating system with Rust components
- Mu - Open Source UEFI implementation in Rust
- Caliptra - Hardware Root of Trust implementation
- Azure Cloud HSM - Hardware Security Module using Rust
- HyperV - Microsoft’s Hypervisor
- Google Security Study on using Rust - Research on memory safety improvements
- COM - The “grandfather of all inter-op technology”
- Direct Write Core - Microsoft’s text rendering implementation in Rust
- Hyrum’s Law - Your users will end up depending on all of your observable internal behavior
- LWN Article: Rust/Linux fallout - Discussion about Rust integration into the Linux kernel
- clippy - Static Analyzer for Rust code
- ABI Resilience - Victor’s talk at Rust Nation UK
- MSBuild - Microsoft’s build tool
- Miri - An interpreter for Rust’s mid-level intermediate representation
Official Links
- Microsoft Rust Documentation
- Victor Ciura’s Blog
- Victor Ciura on Bluesky
- Victor Ciura on Mastodon
- Microsoft Rust Articles
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