Meanwhile the MonoGame, Unity, WaveEngine, and for IoT, Meadow (what Sphere should have been) efforts are all driven by third parties.
Joe Duffy mentions on his RustConf talk that even with Midori proving it was capable to handle production loads (it even powered parts of Bing for a while), it was a no go for Windows team.
Apparently the culture change in WindowsDev will take a couple of generations.
From what I understand, MS is gradually moving away from C/C++: https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-rust-is-the-industrys-best-...