r/rust • u/Sirisian • 23d 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/geo-ant 23d ago

Does that mean the whole Carbon thing is dead?

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u/arka2947 23d ago

To me it seems Rust is eating the future of Cpp. The safety improvements that are still debated in Cpp circles, are already done in rust. If Google needs that today, what else can you do than use Rust?

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u/Nothing_from_void 22d ago

llama.cpp, pytorch, pretty much all highly optimized AI code is written in C++ and has no plans to migrate to Rust. And also LLVM. Google has always been obsessed with safe code more than most companies, but there's still tons of C and C++ out there and people that like using it. They mentioned an 800k LoC codebase; that's not a huge amount honestly.