Comment by badfishblues
1 year ago
It will be impossible to ever truly do a one-to-one comparison. First, there may be a ton of code in the existing implementation that gets cut out by a mass rewrite due to better, more informed, architecture decisions. On the other hand, it may be possible that new features find their way into the rewrite that cause the fully Zig implementation to be larger than the original Rust-Zig implementation. I don't think any comparison will be fully "fair". A smaller implementation could be argued as only being possible in Rust or Zig because of its advantages over the other language. I expect results to be controversial.
I am also curios about at least some benchmark even if it is not one-to-one perfect comparison. There should be at least one case-study where they have shorter feedback loop with Zig than with Rust. It would be interesting to see that.
Yeah, the rewrite will clean up a ton of technical debt for us. So it will very much be a bad comparison.