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Optikos <optikos@verizon.net> wrote:
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-explore-using-rust
> 


Microsoft, by nature, will explore the potential of everything X for which
there seems to be a market, provided that

- X is not controlled by government 
- Microsoft can have a say in the development of X

It about ROI.