Dear #Rust folks, the this-cannot-happen-in-Rust toots have been fun in the beginning. But now they get a bit long I the tooth. Sure, you are right and we get it. But some software is even older than you and is allowed to order the hard stuff in a pub. You can’t just rewrite that on a weekend. Also it starts to look shitty on you. I’m saying this, because I like you folks and I’d like to see more stuff written in Rust. Just don’t be the kind of people others don’t want to have around anymore. ☮️
@brejoc Why do you understand it as "rewrite it in #Rust"? I am against requests of rewriting software in Rust towards authors. But I am a big fan of alternatives in Rust (new projects).
Maybe just take it as "look at this museum of legacy languages and learn from it by writing new software in a safe language like Rust"
That being said, if the project authors themself want to port to Rust like the Fish shell does, then I would of course support that approach :D
@mo8it@brejoc I mean, at some point, even the Linux Kernel and Curl are introducing Rust components in their codebase, so it's more "Rust all the things" than "Rewrite everything in Rust" at ths point :)
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