And 'ghostwriter stated elsewhere in this thread that the previous round of these comments was in reply to an article talking about how QEMU should start to dev

And 'ghostwriter stated elsewhere in this thread that the previous round of these comments was in reply to an article talking about how QEMU should start to develop new device backends as out-of-process Rust programs - which also was not about outsiders proposing a complete rewrite, either. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24133292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24133292 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/08/why-qemu-should-move-from-c-to-rust.html http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/08/why-qemu-should-move-from-c... Perhaps the most long-lasting harm of the Rust Evangelism Strike Force has been the rise of the Anything But Rust Counterinsurgency, who sees that someone, somewhere, is thinking about Rust, and needs to convince them that they're making a mistake.