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AI coding assistants are usually talked about as productivity tools. They help autocomplete functions, explain code, generate tests, and clean up repetitive work. But their influence may be going further than that. They are not just affecting how developers write software. They may also be shaping which programming languages developers choose in the first place.
For years, the systems-programming world has been stuck in a familiar tug-of-war. C and C++ still power huge parts of the modern stack, but their long-running weakness is also well-known: memory safety bugs that keep showing up in real-world incidents. At the same time, newer options like Rust and Go have proven you can build fast software without inheriting quite so many sharp edges.
Microsoft is quietly working on one of its most ambitious software engineering shifts yet: reducing, and eventually eliminating, its reliance on C and C++ across its massive codebase by 2030. That includes parts of Windows – even Windows 11 – which still heavily depend on these older, performance-oriented languages. And the surprising part? Artificial Intelligence is going to play a big role in making this happen.
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