Microsoft engineer ‘clarifies’ LinkedIn post after it goes viral and causes outrage; and how in 2023 NSA made ‘similar recommendation’ for software companies

No, Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust. The clarification comes after a LinkedIn post by a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt went viral and led to an outrage in several circles. This made the company as well as the Microsoft engineer to issue a clarification. The original post from Hunt was a job posting which led to the speculation that Microsoft plans to eliminate all C and C++ code across its major codebases by 2030, replacing it with Rust using AI-assisted, large-scale refactoring.

What Microsoft engineer’s original original post said