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Re:Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust by PittleyDunkin on Sunday December 22, 2024 @10:56AM (#42487103)
> If an already established and proven language was already being used for such a long time successfully, that should remain the language of the project.

Any reason why? On paper C doesn't seem to offer any benefit that Rust doesn't, nor Rust any harm that C doesn't.

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Re:Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust by dehrmann on Sunday December 22, 2024 @12:28PM (#42487760)
Polyglot projects are harder to reason about, harder to onboard to, have more complex tooling, and can have weird interaction bugs.
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Re:Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust by PittleyDunkin on Monday December 23, 2024 @09:57AM (#42494818)
Normally I'd agree, but rust integration with C is so tight that this is of reduced concern.
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