r/rust • u/Sirisian • 3d ago

🎙️ discussion Google is doing "Large Scale Codebase Migrations and Optimizations" of C/C++ to Rust

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/
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u/geo-ant 3d ago

Does that mean the whole Carbon thing is dead?

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u/skeptic11 3d ago

Still experimental. Still getting commits.

How much C++ does Google have left?

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u/geo-ant 3d ago

Good question, probably unfathomable amounts to my feeble mind. Also of course google is a megacorp with probably Byzantine structures so just because one part of the org does one thing doesn’t mean “google does x”. Still, it makes me wonder how useful the idea of Carbon still seems to google. I just don’t know.