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Re:Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages by tcfhgj on Monday November 03, 2025 @05:44PM (#45805370)
> Switching from C++ to Rust? Probably not.

Counter example:

https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/

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Re:Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages by bri3d on Monday November 03, 2025 @05:46PM (#45805384)
FWIW, this was an intelligent rewrite, piece by piece. This is the only way I have ever seen "rewrite it in X" ever work. Fish also isn't a commercial product, so the calculus is a little different.
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