I would love to have a well-tested and fully RFC-compliant DHCP client (IPv4 to start with) written in e.g. Rust, for use both on my dev machines and also on th

I would love to have a well-tested and fully RFC-compliant DHCP client (IPv4 to start with) written in e.g. Rust, for use both on my dev machines and also on the embedded systems I build. Many of these rewrite attempts are quick hacks that are abandonded once very basic functionality is present. For most users Rust vs C/C++ doesn't matter so your rewrite has to be better, not only in security (which is very abstract for users), but better performance / easier to configure / smaller / etc. It is definitely about time, many small tools and utils that has existed for 15-20 years are very crufty when you open the hood and dive into the source.