"Microsoft wants to remove all C and C++ code from the company by the end of the decade. Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt proposes an ambitious plan in which AI and algorithms will rewrite code bases en masse to Rust. The goal at least sounds like a decent slogan: one engineer, one month, one million lines of code. Microsoft wants to get rid of technical debt with the help of modern tooling."
"The company has decades of old programming code, mostly written in the old language C and one of its many derivative languages, C++. The desire to replace this code is also a desire to eliminate an entire class of vulnerabilities: memory-related bugs. Authorities around the world have been saying for some time that tech companies need to fill in their roadmaps to emphasize memory safety. This includes the use of the low-level, memory-safe language par excellence: Rust."
Microsoft intends to eliminate all C and C++ code across the company by the end of the decade, replacing it with Rust to reduce memory-related vulnerabilities. Distinguished engineers propose using AI and algorithmic tooling to rewrite large codebases automatically, targeting a throughput of one engineer, one month, one million lines. The company has decades of legacy C/C++ code and is expanding Rust use, including plans to rewrite parts of the Windows kernel after leadership banned new C/C++ projects. Microsoft built a scalable code-processing infrastructure combining AI agents and algorithmic analysis to accelerate comprehension and automated translation. Memory bugs account for an estimated seventy percent of Microsoft product vulnerabilities, and Rust provides built-in memory safety without sacrificing performance.
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