The (more or less) demise of XBox hardware can be attributed to incompetence of the XBOx leader board over many years, in particular THAT one guy (you know who I mean), or just bad luck if you want to stay polite.
Now enter ..... "Microsoft Distinguished Engineer" Galen Hunt:
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.”
Lots of PR gibberish, but in plain English: "We have an interpreter that can translate C source code into Rust source code. We hope our AI oone day will understand what the code actually does because we engineers no longer can."
What could possibly go wrong?
The result will be pretty obvious. Take millions of old C/C++ code lines which no human understands anyways after 40+ years of continuously adding spaghetti code. The C language is already dangerous as far as side effects are concerened, and Rust is even worse. So the geniuses at MS think "let AI decide what the code is supposed to do".
