Comment by swatcoder
9 months ago
> for rewrites of popular system software which already has millions of users and running in production
Hopefully, it's perfect for more than that.
Rewriting a system that's already acheived that scale is a contentious decision, to say the least. Many of our colleagues have been lost to and scarred by well-meaning attempts to rewrite those systems in the past, including many who were sure it was the right choice for "safety and security" themselves. For every conceptual safeguard new tooling might give you, you invite countless and sometimes catastrophic regressions in actual application logic in writing new implementations. It can work out, but no tool can expect to live only on that kind of work.
I'm sure Rust has much broader applicability than that. Or I hope so at least.
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