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Re:“Rewrite It in Rust” Considered Harmful? [pdf] by patrick451 on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @06:17PM (#36064546)
> But nobody rewrites C code in Rust if they believe existing codebase is free of memory safety hazards; they rewrite it because they think the result will contain fewer hazards, even accounting for the potential problems at the FFI boundary.

That's pretty generous. They re-write it in rust because a "Show HN: Thing-X, in Rust gets upvotes."

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Re:“Rewrite It in Rust” Considered Harmful? [pdf] by notmypenguin on Thursday May 25, 2023 @12:54AM (#36067162)
Citation needed… lol

But seriously, that’s kinda silly to propose as a motive for a software project requiring significant effort.

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