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Tech Scoop · Sep 17, 2026
GitHub Used AI Agents to Rewrite Copilot’s Runtime in Rust
GitHub migrated the core agent runtime behind Copilot from TypeScript and Node.js to more than 800,000 lines of Rust.
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