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Microsoft has set a goal to “eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.”
What are they going to try to replace that C & C++ code with?
You guessed it. Rust.
And they’re going to use AI to do the “Rust re-write” at an insane speed.
“Our strategy is to combine AI *and* Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases. Our North Star is “1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code”.
You read that right.
One million lines of code, per engineer, per month.
Pure insanity. This kind of decision making is common among those with a deeply held, delusional faith in the Cult of Rust.
Take battle tested code, and re-write it (without a clear benefit to the end user) at a recklessly rapid rate. Then force others to adopt that rewritten code before it is ready or properly tested.
All while holding a delusional belief that your new Rust code is superior in all ways, and is inherently bug free thanks to the divine nature of Rust.
We learned this from a post by Galen Hunt, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Research.
linkedin.com/posts/galenh_p…