Microsoft Azure CTO says it is time to shun C, C++ languages

Mark Russinovich, the chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, has said that developers must stop writing codes in programming languages C and C++ and the industry should treat these computer languages as “deprecated”.

The developers should rather write codes in “Rust,” a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language licesed by MIT and Apache 2.0 (dual-licensed), due to security and reliability concerns in C and C++ languages.

“Rust” is now being used within the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) at Meta, at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft, reports ZDNet.