“My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” Microsoft distinguished engineer Galen Hunt wrote in a recent LinkedIn post.
“Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases,” he added. “Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”
Well, I expect it'll be exciting, one way or another.
I look forward to the total and complete collapse of Microsoft in the computer marketplace.
Plans move to Rust, with help from AI
As if AI could handle the mountains of checks Rust has you account for.
Get out your popcorn because this should be fun to watch. They're already vibe coding all of the value and stability out of their OS.
As someone who only still has a Window install because Wine can't handle the CAD tools I rely on, I look forward to the day when Linux becomes a more attractive platform to release professional software for. I'm not holding my breath for the Year of the Linux Desktop but I can certainly enjoy the ride of MS's self sabotage to get there.
This is what you get when AI fanaticism combines with Rust fanaticism.
1 million lines a month is 2-ish line per second. That "engineer" is just someone to blame when things don't work. They aren't going to be contributing anything.
A vibe coded Windows 12. Sounds... interesting,,, mildly...
Probably with AI slop because they got really stupid really fast in Redmond.
This could have been good news, however, Microsoft's insistance on using AI, and general incompetence even without it, makes me very doubtful this will be successful.
They are going to try and replace C and C++ written by actual experts a few decades ago, with Rust written by idiots. Expect tons of logic bugs, and very little measurable difference in memory corruption.
Be off fucking windows by 2030, got it.
Just fucking stop please
Surely there's no way for Microsoft to vibe-fuck their OS.
Surely.
Surely.
Well known in the industry how you don't assess programmers by lines of code. You kind of want them to be efficient and clean. Spend their day thinking and design clever solutions... Not pump out lots of unmaintainable low quality stuff. And have a million lines of that by tomorrow. But yeah, guess every aspect of this aligns well. You should be using Linux by now. Or at least do the switch in the near future.
reimplement … with help from AI
Meaning, it will have more bugs and less features after.
Perfect plan, I'm sure there will be no problems
The linkedin post this is based on sounds like a troll/joke/fake/mental episode.
Somebody got yelled at Edit: seeing as theres no embed, the same guy put up something about this was a research prject and, hah, of course theyre not porting windows to rust.
Incoming brainrot-video from Bryan Lunduke in 3..2..1
This sounds like a great idea, I might finally be able to use Linux at work in the future.
Replace the spaghetti with slop. Sounds like a great idea.
Will this finally be the end of Windows?
Also fun fact: Windows uses a lot of COM Interfaces for API, which in my opinion often makes developing for Windows a better experience, than developing for Linux. Rust does not have anything OOP related by default, and are often emulated with macros instead, like in C.
(With react native)
I can't wait for online trolls to blame the language after the AI slop code gets flagged with a billion CVEs
This is coming from someone who is pretending to think Microsoft is currently doing well and could lose some quality at the expense to introduce new features users want faster to sell an image of technology innovators or at a baseline a user friendly experience
What is actually happening is they are trying really hard to sell Microsoft after windows 11 launch pushed a lot of users away or at least gave them an accurate impression of how MS caters to corporations and advertisers and they don't give a shit about users as long as they keep buying computers with windows monopoly pre installed. The 'ai is going to be good enough to replace developers' longshot could come in 10 years or 10,000 years and is a hand wave to not understand the problem or currently available possible solutions.
Also the interview only covers corpo interests and doesn't include any labor or software union leaders.
It appears my post generated far more attention than I intended… with a lot of speculative reading between the lines.. Just to clarify… Windows is *NOT* being rewritten in Rust with AI.
My team’s project is a research project. We are building tech to make migration from language to language possible. The intent of my post was to find like-minded engineers to join us on the next stage of this multi-year endeavor—not to set a new strategy for Windows 11+ or to imply that Rust is an endpoint.
So vibe coding
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