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Galen Hunt, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, recently described his ambitious target of replacing all C and C++ code at his ...

Microsoft wants to remove all C and C++ code from the company by the end of the decade. Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt proposes an ambitious plan in ...

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