But an internal research project is looking at ways to automate the translation of millions of lines of code per month into other languages.

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Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt clarified that his LinkedIn post about eliminating C and C++ code by 2030 was a personal research goal, not a corporate strategy. His team is developing AI-powered tools to automate code translation between languages at scale, aiming for "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code." The research project uses Rust as a demonstration target but isn't specifically focused on rewriting Windows. While pressure exists to adopt memory-safe languages due to security vulnerabilities, research shows AI-generated code typically contains more issues than human-written code.

Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust

“1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.”
Why so little code? I hope you guys will be more productive.

Wow. It looks Windows will have even more bugs soon

1 million lines of code, damn is that normal or like exaggrated?