iotedge

The article is most flawed because Microsoft has been using Rust for a long time already. The MSRC article says: >in a new blog series we will highlight Microsoft’s exploration of safer system programming languages, starting with Rust so it appears the zdnet author misinterpreted this to mean it hasn't started using it yet. As an example, https://github.com/Azure/iotedge had its first Rust code checked in in February 2018. MS has also already been contributing to Rust and LLVM to get it working on Windows ARM32 and ARM64.

It depends how it gets prioritized by the companies that own and contribute to these codebases - both open and private source. Right now there's not much incentive financially to migrate away from any of the existing code, so more often than not it will not happen. One reason why we're seeing stuff like the [FirecrackerVM](https://firecracker-microvm.github.io) or [AzureIoTEdge](https://github.com/Azure/iotedge) is that the companies behind them know they will attract privacy-/security-minded customers they might not otherwise have. There's other reasons as well, but this is just what stands out to me first.

Microsoft is using Rust for greenfield projects: https://github.com/Azure/iotedge

Link: https://github.com/Azure/iotedge/tree/master/edgelet