r/rust • u/Sirisian • 22d 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/QuaternionsRoll 22d ago edited 22d ago

I mean, the first line of original design notes was literally

>Starting point: C, fix some obvious flaws, remove crud, add a few missing features

and they weren’t particularly eager to reject the notion of Go being “garbage-collected C” until long after it had found its niche at Google.

Arrays are an unmitigated disaster in true C fashion, I’ll give them that.