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This is good news and I'm looking forward to Thunderbird natively supporting XChange. But everything I read about it triggers my inner voice: „Do a parallel rew

by Ringz 2y ago

This is good news and I'm looking forward to Thunderbird natively supporting XChange. But everything I read about it triggers my inner voice: „Do a parallel rewrite of the whole damn 20 year old codebase in Rust! It’s faster, cheaper and cleaner. Do it right now. Don’t discuss it in mailing lists. Take 12 competent software developers and let them rebuild everything.“

robertlagrant 2y ago
Faster and cheaper to write an email client from scratch? Including HTML rendering? Are you sure?
- Dalewyn 2y ago
  When all you have is Rust, everything looks like magic.
  - Ringz 2y ago
    Really? Good to know! Because I don't know anything about Rust yet. Only C++ and Python. But I think that if you know a programming language sufficiently, everything looks like magic, or is that not the case with you?
- Ringz 2y ago
  No. Leave the html rendering to Firefox. Edit: As it has already been handled by Thunderbird in the past.
  - prima-facie 2y ago
    Actually leave html rendering to Servo https://servo.org/ https://servo.org/