cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52190045
Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52190045
Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
We’re talking machine translating the whole codebase from c to rust like one would translate a book from one language to another, here (i.e., without the machine actually understanding a single word, much less long groups of them).
The result will basically be something like this:
unsafe { //insert the entire codebase here, //mangled beyond recognition }They should honestly just wrapper the majority of the code base in rust unsafes and then slowly very slowly migrate sections of the code to rust. This is the right way to do it imo
Will they do that? Nope.