In 2025, something unexpected happened. The programming language most notorious for its difficulty became the go-to choice for the laziest form of programming imaginable.

AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market The Open VSX registry, used for installing extensions in editors compatible with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), will ...

The independent browser project Ladybird has ported its JavaScript engine LibJS from C++ to Rust. AI tools significantly accelerated the translation.

Project ditches Swift and translates C++ with LLM assistance The independent Ladybird web browser project is changing course ...

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini published a blog post describing how he set 16 instances of the company’s Claude Opus 4.6 AI model loose on a shared codebase with minimal supervision, tasking ...

Linux and Windows are quietly undergoing one of the biggest rewrites in their history, as artificial intelligence collides with Rust to reshape how low level code is produced and maintained. Instead ...

Microsoft and Linux are adding AI and Rust to their pipelines. Microsoft is leaning much harder into AI development than Linux. Both are expanding Rust, but neither OS will be fully Rust soon.