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Why rewrite something with multiple decades of validation and bugs-now-depended-upon-features? Word and Excel almost certainly have 30 year old C++ code that #
by t-writescode 10mo ago
Why rewrite something with multiple decades of validation and bugs-now-depended-upon-features?
Word and Excel almost certainly have 30 year old C++ code that #must-not-be-touched, bugs and all.
- HackerThemAll 10mo agoSecurity. I know it's boring for most, but important for those who need to handle cybersecurity issues.
- canucker2016 10mo agoSo they're going to port Microsoft Edge web browser to Rust? Are they going to upstream their changes to the Google Chrome-codebase?
- leftbehinds 10mo agoMozilla seems to be doing well after inveting rust and rewriting firefox using rust
- canucker2016 9mo agoAccording to https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ , only 12.3% of Firefox is written in Rust.