4 ms·
> I wish they'd spend less effort re-writing already working tools in C and more effort writing new, better tools. Is this really a thing? Folks keep pointing
by Manishearth 9y ago
> I wish they'd spend less effort re-writing already working tools in C and more effort writing new, better tools.
Is this really a thing? Folks keep pointing out this bugbear of folks going out and asking projects to rewrite in Rust and ... there aren't that many examples of this.
If anything most of the more famous Rust projects (ripgrep, redox, etc) are clean-slate.
- dcsommer 9y agohttps://github.com/uutils/coreutils https://github.com/uutils/coreutils for instance Personally, I don't find this a bad idea, as long as it is not the primary thrust. The reason it is needed is that you aren't going to convince everyone to change the default tools they've used for however many years. If you want to make things safe, you have to swap out implementations and keep same/similar interfaces.
- Manishearth 9y agoYeah, that's my point, there are scattered examples but it's nobody's primary thrust.
- thatfunkymunki 9y agohttp://transitiontech.ca/random/RIIR http://transitiontech.ca/random/RIIR this phenomenon has been documented
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]