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This conversation is about the merits of rewriting in Rust due to memory safety. My replies have been specifically about that those merits. The only reason ot

This conversation is about the merits of rewriting in Rust due to memory safety. My replies have been specifically about that those merits. The only reason other arguments have been included is because people like to expand that scope. For example where you said (and I’m paraphrasing) that tmux isn’t free from bugs. Clearly I don’t believe that any software is 100% bug free. But that doesn’t mean that rewriting tmux in rust brings any pragmatic improvements to the table when weighed up against all the other options and concerns.

wat10000 1y ago
That might be what you’re talking about but it sure isn’t what I’m talking about and I never said a single word about the actual merits of rewriting vs keeping something in C. I summarized my actual statements in the previous comment. You might infer (and quite reasonably so) a claim that a rust rewrite would be more secure. But any statement about the overall usefulness of such an endeavor is solely in your imagination.