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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
(www.theregister.com)
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I'm my experience, LLMs are especially bad at Rust. They really don't seem to grasp the borrow checker.
I used Rust with Deepseek for a small project for copying and pasting snippets and it went pretty well, but I wouldn't trust it to work with and debug a codebase on its own, especially not an OS