"A job posting by a Microsoft engineer sparked excitement about a project "to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030", replacing it with Rust - but alas for fans of the memory-safe programming language, it turns out this is a personal goal, not a corporate one, and Rust isn't necessarily even the final target."
"Now he's been forced to clarify: "My team's project is a research project. We are building tech to make migration from language to language possible," he wrote in an update to his LinkedIn post. His intent, he said, was to find like-minded engineers, "not to set a new strategy for Windows 11+ or to imply that Rust is an endpoint.""
A Microsoft engineer posted a job that claimed a goal to remove every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030 and replace it with Rust, prompting excitement and concern. The engineer is Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt and the post appeared on LinkedIn four days ago. Hunt clarified that the effort is a research project focused on building technology to enable migration between languages, rather than a company-wide mandate. The stated intent was to recruit like-minded engineers. The clarification also emphasized that Rust is not necessarily the ultimate endpoint and the work does not set Windows strategy.
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