does it mean there is a rust.net?

There is a rustc_codegen_clr which transpiles to .NET

https://github.com/fractalfir/rustc_codegen_clr

> This project is still early in its developement. Bugs, crashes and miscompilations are expected. DO NOT USE IT FOR ANYTHING SERIOUS.

how can one claim it is tier-1?

Also random student, nothing official from Microsoft.

We thought your Rust.NET comment was somewhat in jest. No, Microsoft isn't porting Rust to .NET, they barely try to support anything other than C# on it nowadays, but the article mentions an internal adapter for MSVC codegen.

The project linked above has been posted to HN in the past a few times though.

That project is not in any direct way related to Microsoft

Just had a PTSD flashback...

The year was 2002, VB6 had just been retired for VB.NET which had 0 backward compatibility.

And then we all became Flash/AS3 developers.

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