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Exactly. No one is saying "rewrite it in Rust because it already works". They typically say it because the thing in question is a bug farm, or it's really difficult to maintain.

I looked for the author's (whoever they are) proposed solution and it's this:

"This is because many of the FFI bugs surveyed are fundamentally cross-language issues. Instead, we propose that both C and Rust must conform to a shared, formally-based domain-specific language, which provides a safe-by-construction abstraction over the FFI boundary."

Such a thing is a "new thing", and isn't going to retroactively apply to the legacy C code written before this new thing... so how does that help?

(Full disclosure: I'm a professional programmer who has written in C, C++, C# for many years, and now I choose to write new things in Rust.)




> Exactly. No one is saying "rewrite it in Rust because it already works". They typically say it because the thing in question is a bug farm, or it's really difficult to maintain.

Well some people are. Is there a word for attacking the weakest real version of an opposing argument? Strawman usually implies you are attacking a fake version of the argument, but on the internet you can usually find someone who actually holds an easily refuted point of view, just because of the law of large numbers...


Usually that's called a weakman argument. Steelman is the opposite, where you look for an opponent's strongest arguments to critique/refute.


> it's really difficult to maintain

Typically the Rust Evangelization Task Force does not include people who are actually going to maintain the software (or do the rewrite themselves).


How’s the job market for Rust? Would someone with a good amount of Scala and Python experience and some Rust have a decent shot?


Scala, yes.

It’s still growing.

The companies that do commit to Rust usually have a fair amount of work ahead.

And the typical developers are C/C++ developers who sometimes bring a bunch of unsafe habits that make the whole transition kind of pointless.




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