Re:Building a Rust Mentality
by lnxg33k1 on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:03PM
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Yeah but does it make sense to suggest to rewrite software that are years old, have collected solutions for years and know how? Maybe rust devs could end wishing that things were written in rust and start writing things in rust
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Re:Building a Rust Mentality
by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:10PM
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> Maybe rust devs could end wishing that things were written in rust and start writing things in rust
They are, though. Like, I don't even disagree with the cost of rewriting, but there are very much active efforts to rewrite things in rust (ex. coreutils - https://github.com/uutils/coreutils , OS - https://www.redox-os.org/ ) or to add rust to existing projects (Linux, Firefox and Chrome both (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...)).
Re:Building a Rust Mentality
by burntsushi on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:27PM
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This is just completely moving the goal posts. This thread was talking about observing that a particular vulnerability would be prevented in Rust. But now you've taken it from that, to, "why not rewrite the project in Rust."
They are not the same thing.
> start writing things in rust
Yeah because nobody is writing anything in Rust. What a bunch of blowhards!
Re:Building a Rust Mentality
by steveklabnik on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:25PM
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Then people complain that projects advertise themselves as being written in Rust.