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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 (www.theregister.com)
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[–] franzbroetchen@feddit.org 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

“Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases,” he added. “Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”

Easy to achieve if the ai just wraps all code in an unsafe block ^^

[–] m33@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 hours ago

That's funny because using unsafe might be an hint that Rust is not the right tool for the job. Yet we have rust in the kernel, rust coreutils... I just can't wrap my head arout it, yet.