Microsoft is hiring Rust experts to help the company translate billions of lines of legacy code using AI-powered infrastructure.In a job listing post on LinkedIn, Galen Hunt, distinguished engineer at Microsoft, wrote: “My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.”In responding to questions from commenters about why Rust and not another (more familiar) language like C#, Hunt mentioned memory safety and concurrence.“Two reasons for Rust over C#: 1) C# is memory safe, but not concurrent safe, 2) performance (no GC). Just at Microsoft, we have about a billion lines of code that I want to [be] rewritten,” he wrote. “Across the industry, it is probably 20-40BLoC that needs to be written.”Is this the end for C/C++ in Windows?
>>107896402>AI powered infrastructureheavens
>>107896402i think its the end of windows.and it has nothing to do with rusti heard something about office suite getting slowly droppedand win 11 is packed to the gills with user data commoditization, despite being more closed than ever, so theyre scamming paying customers now.this looks like windows gradually pulling out of the consumer market
>>107896402>we have to rewrite everything in rust to make our software safer and less buggy>also we going are replacing all of our good software engineers with 45 IQ, severely inbred, Indian Hindu rape rats who still worship stone carvings of cartoon pedophiles in current year, and think cow dung has healing propertiesJUST
>>107896402only a retard faggot would ever want to rewrite legacy softwareprovides little to no value to end users and has a 99.9% chance of breaking things
>>107896512value there is to try to remove any possibly lurking security low-level bugs.but doing it in rust seems bad.
>>107896402i find it hilarious how slop windows isalthough sad that its effectively locked in as the majority market share os
>>107896566What's the point in eliminating low level security bugs when they're just going to bolt a high level system on top of it that will do anything an attacker wants if they ask in the right way?
>>107896612why can't a bunch of mega corps come together and make an open source os that's actually usable? remember how google and netflix and a bunch of other companies came together to make av1?
>>107896522Agree in principle, but Winslop is already broken in a myriad ways.
