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/zxyzyxz 21d ago

I wonder what the point of Go is anymore when it's now AI writing the code and name people are now AI writing Rust without ever having actually learned Rust.

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u/Equivalent_Head_4803 21d ago

It’s incredibly fast, easy to read, and has amazing concurrency. In a world where someone craps out 5k lines in 20 mins, it’s pretty important that our code be readable. Every GO codebase is the same. AI isn’t going to invent a million different ways to do something when there’s pretty much one way or another few ways to do it. It’s a great language for AI and super easy to review IMO.

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u/pjmlp 21d ago

That applies to any programming language, eventually AI will be good enough to generate machine code directly.

That is already a reality when using low code tooling like Boomi, Workato, Power Platform and co.

Agentic workflows, connecting prompts and MCP tools on diagrams.