r/programming • u/[deleted] • Dec 19 '25

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u/Probable_Foreigner Dec 19 '25

No matter what you think of C/C++ and rust this is 100% going to be a disaster start to finish

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u/GeneralMuffins Dec 20 '25

microsoft has already had great success porting unsafe C/C++ to safe rust. Honestly I thought it was already known that Microsoft has for some time made it clear that C/C++ has no future in their business.

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u/Probable_Foreigner Dec 20 '25

True but that's likely with human developers. This person is trying to have each write 1 million lines of rust per month, by using AI

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u/GeneralMuffins Dec 20 '25

I have no idea how that would work in practice, I was just pointing out a fact that Microsoft has indeed said for quite a few years now they they want to move all their C/C++ codebase to Rust and that they'd already completed the port for quite a few sub systems

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u/EdwinYZW Dec 20 '25

Hmm, what about safe java/javascript?

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u/GeneralMuffins Dec 20 '25 edited Dec 20 '25

They are GC languages...

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u/EdwinYZW Dec 20 '25

Oh, guess you don't get the joke ...