Microsoft is using AI to replace all their C/C++ code with Rust by 2030. Is that actually possible? What could go wrong? Microsoft’s strategy relies on a new "North Star" metric: 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. 😱
Rust is good, but this approach seems incredibly difficult. Given the risk of AI hallucinations, aiming for a million lines of code per developer feels like an 'Apollo-program' level of difficulty and an excessive task 😱
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115767245843883385
this is going to destroy so many systems built on MSWindows that if you are a CTO and not making contingencies to freeze further development on that OS & chart a path to migrate out to #Linux, then why are you even in that job.
Microsoft is gonna use an autocorrect on amphetamines to rewrite their O/S? this is absolute madness.
may they go down in flames but not before y’all moved out of their poisoned ecosystem.