> “My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn. “Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases.

they're fucked

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skandinaff 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Eliminate C/C++ in favor of what? Perhaps the plan is to use AI to write plain assembler? Why stop there, maybe let's do prompt in - machine-code out?

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pjmlp 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmUprpjCWjM

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Zardoz84 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If remember correctly, Rust.

	▲	davey48016 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah. It's using AI agents to rewrite C/C++ to Rust. https://x.com/gounares/status/2003543050698809544
	▲	gafferongames 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Why are rust people always insane?
	▲	derjames 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		why stopping at rust? Let's have a windows version written in python another in crystal and another in java. At least the generated code will be readable and maintainable!!!/s