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Argon agents rewrite 800k+ lines of Fuchsia Zircon kernel C/C++ into Rust

imagazine.plOct 1

Report on Google's own test of Argon agents migrating C and C++ to memory-safe Rust, including over 800,000 lines of the Fuchsia Zircon kernel and a 32,000-line SIMD rewrite of the libgav1 video decoder that runs 2.7x faster than an earlier Rust port. The closest thing to a…

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