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oh dear fucking lord microsoft have lost the plot

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/my-goal-is-to-eliminate-every-line-of-c-and-c-from-microsoft-by-2030-microsoft-bets-on-ai-to-finally-modernize-windows

I am nearly always in favour of rewriting things in Rust, but "we must rewrite the entirety of Windows in 5 years in a radically different language and we will achieve this with AI" is a recipe for a fucking catastrophe

especially because it's Windows. it's not a monolithic blob, it's a huge number of modular components (DLLs among other things), almost all of whose interfaces are described by and defined for C code, with 40 years of bug compatibility

and Rust FFI is inherently unsafe 😱