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Google migrated 174,000 lines of Fortran to Rust in 59 minutes: the 11-minute baseline is the part to copy

Google's Antigravity team published a walkthrough on November 3 of an agent migrating the core of FVCOM, a coastal ocean model written in Fortran over decades, into memory-safe Rust. The run took 59 minutes for 174,000 lines, surfaced six silent bugs that had been sitting in the solver since the 19…

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  1. 2026-11-04 11:49 · DEV Community — AI
    Google migrated 174,000 lines of Fortran to Rust in 59 minutes: the 11-minute baseline is the part to copy

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