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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by JulianMorrison on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @06:52PM (#11340584)
It would for the longest time be a C program with a metastasizing wart of Rust hung off the side, impossible to get into, impossible to work with, debugging hell, compilation hell. The distros would weep.
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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by pcwalton on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @07:01PM (#11340632)
Programs written in multiple languages are not exactly a new thing. Every iOS and Mac app is one, just to name one example.

And Firefox has a good chance to become exactly what you describe with the weird cancer analogy--in fact, the nightly builds already are.

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