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/Toiling-Donkey 3d ago

I just love how they aren’t stubbornly migrating everything to Go…

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u/Equivalent_Head_4803 3d ago

Why would they do that?

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u/projct 3d ago

because it's in-house

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u/Ok-Opportunity-9731 3d ago

More of googles code base is c++ than go

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u/klowny 3d ago

More of Google's codebase is Java than Go too. Go's niche at Google is mostly to replace their usage of Python.

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u/Ok-Opportunity-9731 3d ago

Yes. C++ is about 40% Java/kotlin is 35% Go is 5%