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Re:Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft by skandinaff on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:05AM (#46855582)
Eliminate C/C++ in favor of what? Perhaps the plan is to use AI to write plain assembler? Why stop there, maybe let's do prompt in - machine-code out?
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Re:Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft by pjmlp on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:12AM (#46855646)
Well, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmUprpjCWjM
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Re:Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft by Zardoz84 on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:13AM (#46855653)
If remember correctly, Rust.
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Re:Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft by davey48016 on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:46AM (#46857293)
Yeah. It's using AI agents to rewrite C/C++ to Rust. https://x.com/gounares/status/2003543050698809544
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Re:Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft by gafferongames on Monday February 02, 2026 @11:02AM (#46857503)
Why are rust people always insane?
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Re:Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft by derjames on Monday February 02, 2026 @01:07PM (#46859106)
why stopping at rust? Let's have a windows version written in python another in crystal and another in java. At least the generated code will be readable and maintainable!!!/s
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