When a senior Microsoft engineer floated the idea of wiping out C and C++ from the company’s codebase by 2030, the remark ...

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 ...

Microsoft engineer Galen Hunt has clarified that his comments about eliminating C and C++ were about a research project on ...

Microsoft is preparing for a sweeping internal transformation that could fundamentally reshape how its software is built and ...

Microsoft aims to replace its legacy C and C++ code with the Rust programming language across its largest codebases by the ...

A job posting by a Microsoft engineer sparked excitement about a project “to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft ...

A Microsoft engineer has clarified that a project aiming to rewrite millions of lines of code using AI and Rust is purely research-focused, not a concrete plan to eliminate C/C++ from Windows by 2030.

The two languages currently play a major role in Microsoft’s products. C is deeply embedded in the Windows kernel and many ...

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

Microsoft has also called for greater use of Rust. In 2022, the CTO of the company’s Azure cloud called Rust to become the ...

Microsoft has a whole team dedicated to eliminating "every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030," which includes Windows ...

Galen Hunt, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, recently described his ambitious target of replacing all C and C++ code at his ...