Rust is seemingly the language of the moment, with open-source projects and companies forming an orderly queue to move core software over to the general-purpose programming lingo. The draw? A pursuit of better memory safety and performance. Now, GitHub has joined the throng. On Wednesday, the company revealed that it has completely rewritten the GitHub Copilot agent runtime — previously built in TypeScript on Node.js and V8 — into more than 800,000 lines of production Rust. Most notably, however, the Microsoft subsidiary says it used its own Copilot coding agents to carry out the switch. In a...

Source: The New Stack