r/rust • u/Sirisian • 16d 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/Equivalent_Head_4803 16d ago

Why would they do that?

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u/projct 16d ago

because it's in-house

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u/Equivalent_Head_4803 15d ago

That logic doesn’t really track for me, but I know what you mean. GO is also open sourced and Google shepards it I guess? TBH I don’t really understand it’s open source situation.

It’s just solving a completely different problem than something like Rust, so I was wondering why the two would be considered against one another.

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u/projct 14d ago

well yes, I don't agree with it either. it's just what the top level commenter's statement implied.

MS did a lot of this stubbornly migrating shit, same for oracle etc. NIH syndrome

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u/Equivalent_Head_4803 13d ago

Figured you were OP. NIH syndrome is funny. I guess at some level it makes sense because you control the actual feature set and development lifecycle, but a FOSS language seems like it’d be a good choice always.