Microsoft is using AI to purge C and C++ from its codebase by 2030

Microsoft is leveraging AI agents to automate the massive task of migrating its legacy codebases to the more secure Rust language.
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Microsoft building team to eliminate C and C++, translate code to Rust using AI, as Windows 11 adopts Rust

Microsoft has a whole team dedicated to eliminating "every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030," which includes Windows ...
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Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 using AI after an employee’s “one engineer, one month, one million code” post on LinkedIn causes outrage

Microsoft told Windows Latest that the company does not plan to rewrite Windows 11 using AI in Rust after an employee's post ...

Microsoft to Replace All C/C++ Code With Rust by 2030

Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of ...

The great programming transformation: How AI and Rust are quietly dethroning C in Linux - and Windows

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...