Re:“Rewrite It in Rust” Considered Harmful? [pdf]
by wongarsu on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @01:18PM
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The thing is Rust also does great on the "other bugs" side.
The standard library and ecosystem follow the philosophy of making it easy to do the right thing, and preferably impossible to do the wrong thing; made possible by a very expressive type system. Of course logic bugs are possible in any language, and I wouldn't suggest rewriting a battle-tested Java application in Rust. But if you are already committed to rewriting (or starting a greenfield project) then Rust is a good choice for more reasons than just memory safety.
The standard library and ecosystem follow the philosophy of making it easy to do the right thing, and preferably impossible to do the wrong thing; made possible by a very expressive type system. Of course logic bugs are possible in any language, and I wouldn't suggest rewriting a battle-tested Java application in Rust. But if you are already committed to rewriting (or starting a greenfield project) then Rust is a good choice for more reasons than just memory safety.