By Nick Farrell
Publication Date: 2025-12-23 08:53:00
Wants to get all rusty
Software King of the World, Microsoft, wants to burn its C and C++ bridges and will modernise its biggest codebases by the end of the decade, replacing C and C++ with Rust.
Volish distinguished engineer Galen Hunt said: “My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030. Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases. Our North Star is an engineer, a month, one a million lines of code. To accomplish this previously unimaginable task, we’ve built a powerful code processing infrastructure. Our algorithmic infrastructure creates a scalable graph over source code at scale. Our AI processing infrastructure then enables us to apply AI agents, guided by algorithms, to make code modifications at scale. The core of this infrastructure is already operating at scale on problems such as code understanding.”
That will rattle a few old hands, but it lines up with the long-running cunning plan…
