Galen Hunt (Galen Hunt), managing director of Microsoft Azure Sphere and former head of the operating systems development group at Microsoft Research, presenteda research project to create tools that combine AI with traditional algorithms to automatically rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases in Rust. The goal of the project is the complete exclusion of the C and C++ languages from Microsoft codebases by 2030. The mission mentions the elimination of technical debtin large-scale projects. It is noted that the infrastructure being developed for code processing is aimed at allowing one engineer to translate a million lines of code per month. The project is being developed in the Microsoft CoreAI division.
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