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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

The analogy is "this building is working and tested, but it something DOES break it's a huge pain to fix it." whereas in rust it would be relatively painless. I don't know if that's worth rewriting it in rust but if the rust fanatics want to do it then eh why not.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Well that's a very valid argument. If cost and impact of an error is very high and a rewrite mitigates that, sure, why not rewrite it. But in this comment thread I had to offer this argument myself, I haven't really seen it properly communicated.
    It's always β€” memory safety this, error handling that… These are good reasons to pick a language for a new project, but, god damn, it's a stupid reason for a stable program rewrite (let's say the program is mostly in maintenance mode: no major new features are planned; correct me if that's not the case for sudo).

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