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Microsoft’s latest update folds deep C++ understanding into GitHub Copilot’s agent workflows in Visual Studio Code, giving the Copilot agent access to symbol-level code navigation and CMake-aware build/test tools so it can reason about and change C++ code the same way an experienced human...

Microsoft’s own engineers have announced an audacious, company-wide plan: use AI and large-scale automated tooling to translate Microsoft’s C and C++ codebases to Rust — with an explicit target of eliminating “every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.” Background Microsoft’s shift toward...