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This “Tier-1 language” engineering status for Rust means giving internal teams a paved path from local development to production: secure toolchain builds, productive developer tooling, quality workflows, deep platform integration, and compliance with the SDL requirements Microsoft software must meet.

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Specifically, it joins a list of existing Tier 1 languages (C++, C#, and TypeScript), as "one of the best-supported languages for internal development at Microsoft"

Java and Python are not on that list?

Microsoft explicitly de-emphasized Java in favor of C# after their J++ lawsuit. That's why they created C# in fact.

Python for windows application development never really got there and is kind of a technically runs if you want to run python kind of situation.

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