Well, if you didn’t have the incentive to ditch Microsoft already, this should do it. And again with the 2030 which is a popular date for the OCGFC and all their plans. But the big takeaway is the use of AI. Consequently, with people driven to psychosis or death by AI, which has been theorized to sometimes be hijacked by fallen angels, are they going to rewrite the code for Microsoft? Are they going to be your Copilot AI? This is going to be a surveillance state nightmare for the incoming mark of the beast system, where agentic AI tracks everything you do or say, turning you over to the authorities when you step out of line. And the entire thing is going to be run by fallen angels with supernatural intelligence, easily able to give the false sign of super-intelligent AI as well. And people are already willing to worship the AI god.
https://www.thurrott.com/dev/330980/microsoft-to-replace-all-c-c-code-with-rust-by-2030
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of the decade, replacing it with Rust.
“My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn. “Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases. Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’ To accomplish this previously unimaginable task, we’ve built a powerful code processing infrastructure. Our algorithmic infrastructure creates a scalable graph over source code at scale. Our AI processing infrastructure then enables us to apply AI agents, guided by algorithms, to make code modifications at scale. The core of this infrastructure is already operating at scale on problems such as code understanding.”
This shift will shock some people, but it’s exactly the future I’ve described, where Microsoft uses AI to refactor (rewrite) the NT/Windows kernel and its other most important codebases using Rust. It was also telegraphed to some degree by Microsoft: It announced in 2023 that it would rewrite parts of the Windows kernel using Rust after Azure CTO Mark Russinovich forbid developers from starting new C/C++ projects and required them to use Rust instead. Earlier this year, Russinovich said that Microsoft was “all-in” on Rust, and the company has dramatically expanded its use of the memory-safe language
At that time, Russinovich said that Microsoft was working on “more automated translation of C and C++ to Rust [using] LLMs.” And so the LinkedIn post from Hunt serves as a follow-up, of sorts. He’s looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer to help with this effort.
“The purpose of this Principal Software Engineer role is to help us evolve and augment our infrastructure to enable translating Microsoft’s largest C and C++ systems to Rust,” the post notes. “A critical requirement for this role is experience building production quality systems-level code in Rust—preferably at least 3 years of experience writing systems-level code in Rust. Compiler, database, or OS implementation experience is highly desired. While compiler implementation experience is not required to apply, the willingness to acquire that experience in our team is required.”
Hunt’s Rust refactoring team is part of the Future of Scalable Software Engineering group in the Engineering Horizons organization in Microsoft CoreAI. Its mission, he says, is “to build capabilities to allow Microsoft and our customers to eliminate technical debt at scale. We pioneer new tools and techniques with internal customers and partners, and then work with other product groups to deploy those capabilities at scale across Microsoft and across the industry.”
Sounds good to me. If you wish to apply for this job, you can do so on LinkedIn.
Thanks to Raf for the tip.