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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 - Plans move to Rust, with help from AI (www.theregister.com)
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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Make computers do stuff for what purpose?

For whatever task you're trying to get them to do. Predict the weather, solve an equation, format a document, etc. Computers can do useful things. We program them so that they do those things.

This is the most ELI5 thing I've ever written. If you actually understand programming and you don't realise that it exists to make computers do things then you're surely just being deliberately obtuse.