At the RiSE group at Microsoft Research (MSR), we conduct fundamental research into formal methods, programming languages, and software engineering (including emerging agentic systems), with a ...

A proof-of-concept C compiler written entirely in Lean 4, with a built-in memory-safety verifier. The compiler catches buffer overflows, use-after-free, double free, and null dereference bugs at ...

EXCLUSIVE C and C++ programmers may not need to learn Rust after all to participate in the push for memory safety. Speaking remotely at the W2140 conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on Tuesday, Robin ...

Creating a new programming language is an ambitious and complex endeavor. It requires a deep understanding of not only coding and software engineering but also the principles that make a programming ...

The compiler supports writing programs in mixed Compis and C; you can mix .c and .co source files. It accomplishes this by bundling some LLVM tools, like clang and lld into one executable. The LLVM ...

Go is a programming language created at Google in late 2007 and released as open source in November 2009. Since then, it has operated as a public project, with contributions from thousands of ...

There is a longstanding tension in programming language design between two seemingly irreconcilable desiderata. Rust is the first industry-supported programming language to overcome the longstanding ...

This blog post outlines the work that Microsoft is doing to eliminate uninitialized stack memory vulnerabilities from Windows and why we’re on this path. None of this work would have been possible ...