Microsoft wants to replace its C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

6 pointsposted 15 hours ago
by dangalf

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dangalf

15 hours ago

>Plans move to Rust, with help from AI

>“Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases,” he added. “Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”

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vjvjvjvjghv

15 hours ago

How are they going to review these million lines of code? It’s not like it’s not possible to write buggy code in Rust

saidnooneever

11 hours ago

its a research project by some engineer at MS to see if its possible to do it. its unlikely they will actually do it ,maybe come up with a plan for it if they think its feasible.