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.

It is much more likely that the way forward lies in .NET Native than picking up Rust.

According to the C++ code generation talk at Build, their new C2 compiler backend appears to evolve into something like how Apple is using LLVM for.

What's .Net Native gotta do with it? Can that really provide the performance? Is MS gonna start using C# for perf work? You've still got the GC and no easy way to eliminate such things. And what's stopping the JIT from doing similar things?