Don’t worry — a Microsoft engineer clarifies that the goal to ‘eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030’ is currently just a research project

• Speculation arose after a Microsoft Engineer’s LinkedIn post suggested C++ replacement
• The engineer has since clarified this is a research project, not Microsoft plan
• Microsoft is moving towards Rust becoming its “1st class language”

In a LinkedIn post from Microsoft engineer Galen Hunt has generated a fair bit of talk after sharing his goal to “eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030” – even advertising an open position on his team to move towards this.

The role’s purpose was to “help us [Microsoft] evolve and augment our infrastructure to enable translating Microsoft’s largest C and C++ systems to Rust” – with Hunt explaining that “powerful code processing infrastructure” has already been built.