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A comment on Relibc: C Library in Rust for Redox and Linux.

Re:Relibc: C Library in Rust for Redox and Linux by brianon99 on Thursday March 08, 2018 @09:35PM (#16549451)
There are many projects recently titled like "xxx in Rust" or "xxx in Go", rewriting an existing software, seems to be built not because there is a problem in the existing software, but without a clear reason.

For learning a new language, it can be a good practice. But if you hope the project to grow successfully I think there is no hope.

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Re:Relibc: C Library in Rust for Redox and Linux by sanxiyn on Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:28PM (#16549608)
relibc is built to solve a problem in the existing software, namely newlib. It has a clear reason.

Redox is an opearting system. An operating system needs a C library. Redox used to use newlib, but developers found it unsatisfying.

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