Galen Hunt of Microsoft is assembling a team right now to rewrite their entire product suite, which is currently written in C and C++, by 2030. The stated goal is to code at the rate of a million lines per month per engineer.
Don’t laugh—the goal may be extremely ambitious, but it isn’t obviously insane. There are quantifiable reasons why Mr. Hunt might not be bonkers.
The reasons take some explaining.
This post has nothing at all to do with technology–it’s shameless self promotion.
I’m not just writing about data and tech anymore. I’m now officially a novelist! My debut novel, a psychological thriller, “And Never Memory of You”, is now available on Amazon/KDP/Kindle as an ebook, in paperback, or for free on Unlimited.
“When fate hands Lucy Bentley the chance to deal with a lowlife that the law won’t do anything about, the small town waitress seizes the moment. Who knew cleaning up after closing time could be so satisfying?“
It’s a story of justice, love, betrayal, and revenge.
The Amazon/KDP page is: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNT5JDNL
If you get curious and read it, a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads would be tremendously helpful. Reviews are easy to do, but there are some minor gotchas, like never having two people on the same account review it. (Both will get discarded.) Details can be found on the book website: https://petercoatesauthor.com/how-to-leave-a-review/
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