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Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by josteink on Sunday May 24, 2020 @03:50AM (#23289910)
Rust supports incremental rewrites of existing C-codebases too.

See this for an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21681395

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Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by the_why_of_y on Sunday May 24, 2020 @06:12AM (#23290506)
See also the example of librsvg, a C implementation of SVG that was incrementally translated to Rust by some volunteers over a couple years.

https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/exposing-c-and-rust-...

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