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Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot

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A rewrite this size wasn't affordable before agents. Here's what porting the Copilot agent runtime to 800,000 lines of production Rust actually took. The post Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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  1. 2026-09-17 00:26 · GitHub Blog
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