I can't wait to try this. If it can just get to the level of the first F# plugin, I'll be so happy.
If MS picked up interest in Rust that'd be even more amazing. And it'd actually solve their security problems, unlike the more and more convoluted codegen they're doing for C++.
Edit: to be clear, I mean the security problems that their C++ codegen is trying to solve, like stack cookies, ASLR, or the new stuff they were boasting about at build in the ObjC VS2015 codegen video. (Some special function call thing that stores a map of legitimate function call targets and checks before calling.) All that stuff is eliminated by having a sound design in the first place.
If MS picked up interest in Rust that'd be even more amazing. And it'd actually solve their security problems, unlike the more and more convoluted codegen they're doing for C++.
Edit: to be clear, I mean the security problems that their C++ codegen is trying to solve, like stack cookies, ASLR, or the new stuff they were boasting about at build in the ObjC VS2015 codegen video. (Some special function call thing that stores a map of legitimate function call targets and checks before calling.) All that stuff is eliminated by having a sound design in the first place.