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I really liked this article because they spoke more of their decision making process than tech. Rewrite It In Rust is a meme by this point, but the blog actuall

I really liked this article because they spoke more of their decision making process than tech. Rewrite It In Rust is a meme by this point, but the blog actually goes through every point that could be discussed in such a strategy and why it made sense for Dropbox at this moment. Really good blog post, imo.

Recursing 7y ago
The author (and some of his coworkers) gave a lot of interesting answers on reddit as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/fjt4q3/rewriting_the_heart_of_our_sync_engine_in_rust/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/fjt4q3/rewriting_the_...
- sujayakar 7y ago
  and on lobste.rs too :) https://lobste.rs/s/ob6a8z/rewriting_heart_our_sync_engine https://lobste.rs/s/ob6a8z/rewriting_heart_our_sync_engine