"“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"What can go wrong? Yikes...
locknitpicker|2 months ago
The post is clearly aimed at self-promotion. The guy is basically referring to mundane things like using transpilers to generate Rust from C. Those have been around for a few years now, such as C2Rust[1]. At best, this sort of project is looking for corporate backing to politically handle this sort of migration.
At this point this sort of stunt is hardly technical, and instead it's something between a publicity stunt and managing technical debt.
[1] https://c2rust.com/
LeFantome|2 months ago
C2Rust is not going to be very idiomatic.