A Crazy Claim
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.
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