Impossible– no part of the thread has involved someone suggesting rewriting it in Rust, which means there's no opportunity for someone else to reply "This project seems like a perfect fit for golang, why would you suggest they use Rust instead?"

I could write this thread in an afternoon.

Deep cut! For newer HN users, that's a reference to this comment responding to the original DropBox announcement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17732980