Meanwhile the content of the post is merely that an engineer who works for a team within Microsoft's AI division wrote on LinkedIn "my goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft". (He believes that he can get AI agents to accomplish this.)

Not quite the same as an official plan announced by the CTO or something. Bit misleading title.

from the LinkedIn post [0]:

> I have an open position in my team for a IC5 Principal Software Engineer. The position is in-person in Redmond.

> My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.

so perhaps a more accurate title would be "one guy at Microsoft, in a LinkedIn job posting, says it's his goal to replace all C/C++ code with Rust"

0: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/galenh_principal-software-eng...

Anyone who has experience with LLMs knows that strong typing, static validation, and testing is how you get the most out of codegen. The kind of thing Rust is for. I can think of ways to do this gradually, that would actually work.

It's something that would take years to see effects in a C++ codebase but I think the alternative of sticking with C++ is a dead end.

Somewhat relevant: I chuckled at this (quite accurate) 2 hour overview of the unfixable problems with C++: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB-hjc2Gc.

Unreliable source: I worked at Microsoft (on C++) many years ago and I've been writing C++ on/off for ~15 years.

What can go wrong? Yikes...