{"id":38553,"date":"2025-12-25T00:29:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/microsoft-is-not-rewriting-windows-in-rust\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T00:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:29:56","slug":"microsoft-is-not-rewriting-windows-in-rust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/microsoft-is-not-rewriting-windows-in-rust\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A job posting by a Microsoft engineer sparked excitement about a project \u201cto eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030\u201d, replacing it with Rust \u2014 but alas for fans of the memory-safe programming language<\/a>, it turns out this is a personal goal, not a corporate one, and Rust isn\u2019t necessarily even the final target.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt posted about his ambitious goal on LinkedIn four days ago, provoking a wave of excitement and concern.<\/p>\n

Now he\u2019s been forced to clarify: \u201cMy team\u2019s project is a research project. We are building tech to make migration from language to language possible,\u201d he wrote in an update to his LinkedIn post<\/a>. His intent, he said, was to find like-minded engineers, \u201cnot to set a new strategy for Windows 11+ or to imply that Rust is an endpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunt\u2019s project is to investigate how AI can be used to assist in the translation of code from one language to another at scale. \u201cOur North Star is \u20181 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code\u2019,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s recruiting an engineer to help build the infrastructure to do that, demonstrating the technology using Rust as the target language and C and C++ as the source.<\/p>\n

The successful candidate will join the Future of Scalable Software Engineering team in Microsoft\u2019s CoreAI group, building static analysis and machine learning tools for AI-assisted translation and migration.<\/p>\n

Pressure to ditch C and C++ in favor of memory-safe languages<\/a> such as Rust comes right from the top, with research by Google and Microsoft showing that around 70 percent of all security vulnerabilities in software are caused by memory safety issues.<\/p>\n

However, using AI to rewrite code<\/a>, even in a memory-safe language, may not make things more secure: AI-generated code typically contains more issues than code written by humans, according to research by CodeRabbit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not stopping some of the biggest software developers pushing ahead with AI-powered software development<\/a>, though. Already, AI writes 30% of Microsoft\u2019s new code<\/a>, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in April.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on Infoworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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