Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoMicrosoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030www.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up196arrow-down19cross-posted to: programming@programming.dev
arrow-up187arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030www.theregister.comHal-5700X@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square59fedilinkcross-posted to: programming@programming.dev
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 hours agoThis 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.
minus-squareranzispa@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 hours agoI mean, if this is true and it works it is not too far fetched. You’d mostly be checking that tests still make sense and that they pass. Microsoft scientists have worked on a tool that automatically converts some C code to Rust.
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.
I mean, if this is true and it works it is not too far fetched. You’d mostly be checking that tests still make sense and that they pass.