systems programming

When a senior Microsoft engineer posted a recruitment message that read like a manifesto — “My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030” with the provocative north‑star “1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code” — the internet did what it does best: it turned an...

Microsoft’s software stack is on the move: in December 2025 a senior Microsoft engineer publicly framed an audacious plan to remove every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030, using a hybrid of algorithmic program analysis, large‑scale AI agents, and hands‑on engineering to translate legacy...

When you think about all the code executing in the world at any given time, there's a good chance you're thinking about a lot of code written in C/C++ (aka native code). As Mohsen Agsen mentions so astutely in this impromptu and candid conversation, C++ can be thought of as the dark matter of...