Microsoft is hiring top-level engineers to help to get rid of C and C++ in its largest codebases and replace that code with Rust.
In a job listing post on LinkedIn, Galen Hunt, distinguished engineer at Microsoft, wrote: “My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.”
In responding to questions from commenters about why Rust and not another (more familiar) language like C#, Hunt mentioned memory safety and concurrence.
“Two reasons for Rust over C#: 1) C# is memory safe, but not concurrent safe, 2) performance…

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