> "Microsoft have a goal that states they want to get to "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.""

No, one researcher at Microsoft made a personal LinkedIn post that his team were using that as their 'North Star' for porting and transpiling existing C and C++ code, not writing new code, and when the internet hallucinated that he meant Windows and this meant new code, and started copypasting this as "Microsoft's goal", the post was edited and Microsoft said it isn't the company's goal.

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rkozik1989 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's still writing new code. Also, its kind of an extremely bad idea to do that because how are you going to test it? If you have to rewrite anything (hint: you probably don't) its best to do it incrementally over time because of the QA and stakeholder alignment overhead. You cannot push things into production unless it works as its users are expecting and it does exactly what stakeholders expect as well.

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kavalg 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If it is Windows, then you and I are going to test it :)

	▲	bigfishrunning 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe you will; i won't

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ethin 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No no, your talking common sense and logic. You can't think like that. You have to think "How do I rush out as much code as possible?" After all, this is MS we're talking about, and Windows 11 is totally the shining example of amazing and completely stable code. /s

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giancarlostoro 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Porting legacy code is definitely one of its strengths. It can even... do wilder things if you're creative enough.