Microsoft to Replace All C/C++ Code With Rust by 2030

Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of ...

Microsoft aims to replace its legacy C and C++ code with the Rust programming language

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

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

Microsoft has also called for greater use of Rust. In 2022, the CTO of the company’s Azure cloud called Rust to become the ...
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Beyond C++: The promise of Rust, Carbon, and Cppfront

In some ways, C and C++ run the world. You’d never know it from all the hype about other programming languages, such as Python and Go, but the vast majority of high-performance mass-market desktop ...
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What is a compiler? How source code becomes machine code

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...
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Can AI really rewrite Windows? Microsoft is finding out

A project being quietly researched at Microsoft is something many systems engineers consider impossible. Could AI systems systematically rewrite large amounts of C/C++ source code, much of which ...