Re:Fish (shell) porting to Rust from C++
by bpye on Monday January 30, 2023 @10:42PM
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That's sort of what I was getting at. It seems incremental adoption is likely, but I'm not sure anyone is seriously going to try and rewrite all of Firefox or Linux in Rust.
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Re:Fish (shell) porting to Rust from C++
by fbdab103 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:23AM
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Those are some of the largest public projects in existence. Even if you went with a "traditional" alternative (D? Swift? Ada?) - there is no way such an effort would not take years. Incremental is the only way to transition such behemoths.