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You can replace C for new code (arguably) but how the hell does one replace legacy C? Can Unix realistically be rewritten in something else? Or Postgres?
by weatherlite 5y ago
You can replace C for new code (arguably) but how the hell does one replace legacy C? Can Unix realistically be rewritten in something else? Or Postgres?
- linkdd 5y agoOr SQLite - https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html
- weatherlite 5y agoThe list is very long. And also I'm not sure for all use cases Rust is a better C.
- sanxiyn 5y agoPostgres certainly can. It's less than two million lines of code. Just Firefox has more Rust code than entire Postgres.
- weatherlite 5y agoIt's possible, just doesn't make much financial sense so I'm not expecting it to happen.