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

6 pointsposted a month ago
by dangalf

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dangalf

a month 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

a month 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

a month 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.