Rust stories

Sep 18, 2026

Microsoft ports Copilot runtime to Rust using AI agents for $120,000

Microsoft completed a full rewrite of the GitHub Copilot engine in Rust, with AI agents performing most of the porting work at a cost of approximately $120,000.

Sep 18, 20262 sources

May 11, 2026

NVIDIA Releases cuda-oxide: Experimental Rust-to-CUDA Compiler

NVIDIA's research lab released cuda-oxide v0.1.0, a custom Rust compiler backend that compiles GPU kernels directly to PTX through a novel compilation pipeline. The experimental tool enables Rust developers to write CUDA kernels natively.

May 11, 20261 source

Top claims

▪In a 1,000-session lifecycle test, the Rust-based GitHub Copilot runtime running in-process achieved a throughput of 120 sessions per second, compared to 7.55 sessions per second for the TypeScript version
▪Bun creator Jarred Sumner previously ported an Anthropic-owned JavaScript runtime containing 535,000 lines of Zig code to Rust using Claude agents for $165,000
▪The GitHub Copilot runtime's migration from TypeScript to Rust spanned 14.5 weeks and over 135 releases, with approximately 1.3 port pull requests opened per day

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AI for developers2 AI agents1 AI coding assistants1 AI labor & economic disruption1 Compute, chips & AI infrastructure1 CUDA1 GPU programming1 Microsoft1 Open-source AI1 Software development automation1

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