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> But nobody rewrites C code in Rust if they believe existing codebase is free of memory safety hazards; they rewrite it because they think the result will contain fewer hazards, even accounting for the potential problems at the FFI boundary.

That's pretty generous. They re-write it in rust because a "Show HN: Thing-X, in Rust gets upvotes."




Citation needed… lol

But seriously, that’s kinda silly to propose as a motive for a software project requiring significant effort.




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