How to run a company into the ground - the MS way

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JRPGfan said:

What is the point?

Isn't performance differnces between the two basically a wash? So why bother doing such a huge task?
Having A.I do the leg work,.... what could possibly go wrong?


"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."

It's not just about speed.
And let's be honest, Microsoft hasn't really given a crap about speed for a long time.

It's about safety and reliability.
...Or rather Rust offers guaranteed memory safety via compile-time checks... Rust is also better when it comes to compile error checking... Anyone who has had to deal with C++ sometimes cryptic errors will know what I mean.


But... C/C++ which I avidly dabble in, is an extremely mature language with lots of support and libraries available.

JRPGfan said:

^ that is legit scary.
Are you saying there is stuff in windows, no one knows what does? that is just kept around for no reason other than "we don't know" ?

Honestly stuff like this is, making linux sound better by the day.
on top of all the A.I bullcrap they are pushing on us as well.

Linux has always been that "maybe" alternative to Windows... But it's Achilles heel was always backwards compatibility with Windows games and software, which is now becoming pretty irrelevant, it still needs work on the GPU driver side of the equation though.

Windows 11 has over 70~ million lines of code, no single person at Microsoft would know what every single part of Windows or line of code is for... It's simply unrealistic and not how a monolithic OS is designed.
Rather Windows is broken down into "components" where specialized teams focus and build for... You would have a team for the Kernel, driver stacks, User Interface, Networking Stack, Security Stack and so on... And then another team tries to bring it all together with an end goal and vision.

And Microsoft isn't alone in this type of OS development.

Even things like nVidia Drivers and AMD Radeon Drivers have more lines of code than the NT Kernel and as such; have multiple teams developing for them as well.