> It doesn't have to be a big rewrite of "everything" to Rust. It would at the very least be a slow successive rewrite whenever a major change is needed. That'

> It doesn't have to be a big rewrite of "everything" to Rust. It would at the very least be a slow successive rewrite whenever a major change is needed. That's why the suggestion to implement BSD sockets first is an interesting one. It's a non-trivial interface (which is important to be a useful proof of concept), but it's widely used, relatively well-defined, and could potentially be plugged into applications without replacing other pieces (though that may turn out to be tricky). If it works, you could start implementing more native interfaces that way. If it doesn't, maybe we'll understand better why C remains so dominant for system libraries. (Personally, I don't think it's just inertia or the cost of rewriting all that software, but that's why I'd like to see a project like the one suggested.)