On: Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"

[dboreham]

I think it's becoming apparent that any attempt to progressively re-write a large codebase into a new language is always going to fail. Needs to done ground up new.

[bmicraft → dboreham]

Not huge, but the incremental approach pretty much couldn't have gone better for fish: https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/

[fulafel → dboreham]

Which progressive rewrite attempts do you have in mind?

[baq → dboreham]

Ummm it’s actually exactly the other way around if the code is alive: incremental is the only possible way to keep up.