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Issues that are battle tested from ages.

• Cthulhu_ 1y ago
  Sure, which is highly valuable information that hopefully made its way into a testing / verification suite. Which can then be used to rewrite the tool into a memory-safe language, which allows a lot of fixes and edge cases that were added over time to deal with said issues to be refactored out. Of course there's a risk that new issues are introduced, but again, that depends a lot on the verification suite for the existing tool. Also, just because someone did a port, doesn't mean it has to be adopted or that it should replace the original. That's open source / the UNIX mentality.