Microsoft wird bis 2030 den gesamten C/C++-Code durch Rust ersetzen
Microsoft wird bis 2030 den gesamten C/C++-Code durch Rust ersetzen
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Seems crazy to commit to that now when the word “rust” will clearly become a slur for robotic lifeforms sometime this century.
How about replacing Windows 11 with Windows 12 (ie: Windows 10 rebranded) instead. Else I am running Linux instead of dealing with their ever increasing slop.
C/C++ code and compiler been around for generations, most of Linux kernel & drivers is written in that language.
Way to misinterpreted stuff, well done
*Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases.*
oh, no way this won’t spectacularly fail then.
And oh god the techbro marketing speech following that, dude clearly has only a vague clue about what that all entails.
I’m not a programmer. What is the benefit of Rust over C/C++ ?
Surely this isn’t totally true?
1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code? Who’s going to review all that? How much debt and vulns is that going to introduce? Absolutely mental target.
„Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’“
Someone’s gonna have fun reading through those pull requests. I guess AI will take care of that as well.
That Windows will be built using AI so expect rampant bugs that won“t be easy to fix.
I’ve always kept Windows for gaming but AI is gonna kill gaming PCs.. Linux is the way and it runs much better on older hardware. Hopefully more games continue to release on Linux.
Task Manager gonna be running on overtime
„And it will all be *vibe coding*“ /S
This reads like a PR stunt who’s primary motivation is to create and demonstrate an AI success story and the distant secondary motivation is maybe replacing some bits of Microsoft’s ecosystem with Rust.
People won’t have the money to buy that much RAM.
Rewriting for the sake of rewriting never made sense. And a rewrite has almost always introduced more bugs.
The rustification must continue…
Bah, still super split on it. On the one hand, I get that using Rust has advantages. But on the other, just yeeting out all C/C++ code seems like a fatal mistake o.o…
So glad I finally fully switched to Linux
Microsoft has bigger problems. They should worry about fixing Windows and getting rid of all the bloat rather than rewriting their crappy software in a different language.
They will have to figure out a way to replace all their paying customers pretty soon too as no one likes what they are doing.
RemindMe! 5 years
Oh man, this is going to fail *spectacularly.*
*one random clown saying they will use AI to convert the code at the rate of 1 million LOC per month per engineer (simply impossible)
I mean, if it’s that easy, let’s just use AI to write a new OS that’s compatible with Windows apps. We’ll just run Microsoft right out of business. /s
As someone who actually knows the Word and Excel desktop code bases I can tell you this is highly unlikely of being successful.
Excel is a spaghetti monster of global variables. Word has some functions that are many thousands of lines long and decades old and know one wants to touch the internals of due to potentially breaking one of the many thousands of features in subtle or not so subtle ways.
A lot of it is a tinder box with wack a mole held up by duck tape and chicken wire. When we went from C to C++ it was more of a window dressing exercise; the code is still largely C.
I can’t imagine going from this to Rust shipped in just 4 years. AI tools can’t handle large and complex codebases well.
The only thing that comes to my mind when I hear Rust, is that toxic game.
Windows is absolutely full of legacy code dating way back to the 90s. All is C++, as far as I know.
Microsoft would be better off starting fresh if they genuinely wanted to replace it all with Rust.
> My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030. Our strategy is to combine AI *and* Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases. -Galen Hunt
And my goal is Sydney Sweeney and Scarlett Johansson at the same time. We can all dream, right?
No, they won’t.
I mean seriously. No, they won’t.
Imagine a sweaty Steve Ballmer running around the stage announcing this to the stooges that would attend such a thing.
It would be ideal if you sorted out Outlook 365 first….
Solitaire is going to be LIT!
An AI-made Rust codebase shoulds like the ultimate shitshow.
There are going to be high paying jobs fixing that shit (*provided that AIs even get that stuff working*)
Sounds cool on paper but anyone who is a.software engineer here knows this will be a disaster.
Problem with Windows is not C and memory management, it’s Satya’s vision and project management
can’t wait for everything in windows to be AI vibe coded. so cool.
Something tells me they will fuck this up immensely