Comment by rcxdude
6 hours ago
Would they have, in a year? The general plan of attack would likely still be the same: rewrite it in rust while keeping the structure as similar as possible, no matter how unidiomatic, then adjusting the design to make it more idiomatic to rust. Doing both at once is much harder.
> Doing both at once is much harder.
I think with sequential approach (translate -> make idiomatic) it is easier. However, I am not sure that monetary difference is going to be as stark as $165k vs 3 engineers/year. Especially, if you consider that no one knows that is what in the code at the end.
Sure, you can argue that now it doesn’t matter — agents and all that, but I am not so sure.