- The rumors arose after a Microsoft Engineer on LinkedIn suggested a replacement for C++.
- The engineer later clarified that this was a research project and not a Microsoft plan.
- Microsoft is moving toward making Rust its “first-class language”
IN Post on LinkedIn from Microsoft engineer Galen Hunt sparked quite a bit of conversation after sharing his goal of “eliminating all C and C++ lines from Microsoft by 2030″—even announcing an open position on his team to move toward that goal.
The purpose of this role was to “help us [Microsoft] develop and expand our infrastructure to enable the transition of the largest Microsoft C and C++ systems to Rust,” while Hunt explained that a “powerful code processing infrastructure” has already been created.
However, the engineer has since updated his post, saying: “Just to be clear… Windows is *NOT* being rewritten in Rust using AI.” […] My team’s project is a research project.”
A project, not a plan
According to the post, Hunt's team's mission is to “create capabilities that enable Microsoft and our customers to eliminate technical debt at scale” through an AI processing infrastructure that “allows us to apply algorithm-guided AI agents to make code changes at scale.” The core of this infrastructure is already working at scale on problems like code understanding.”
Although the post explains that this is just a single team's study, the scope of the project seems quite significant; “Our North Star is 1 Engineer, 1 Month, 1 Million Lines of Code,” explains Hunt. “To accomplish this previously unimaginable task, we built a powerful code processing infrastructure. Our algorithmic infrastructure creates a scalable graph from source code at scale.”
Although it's true that Microsoft initiated the transition towards Rust programming language – spend $10 million to make it a “first-class language” for engineering systems.
This impulse is reflected in GoogleThe company said that “memory safety bugs in C and C++ continue to be the most difficult source of incorrectness to address” as Rust joined Java and Kotlin in the Android Open Source Project.
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