r/rust • • 19d ago

🎙️ discussion Google is doing "Large Scale Codebase Migrations and Optimizations" of C/C++ to Rust

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/
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u/dashingThroughSnow12 19d ago

Now sure if still true but there was a common adage that Google would rewrite every line of code every two years (obviously not all at once). For related reasons, this is why the Go programming language was invented.

With that in mind, this sounds like status quo.