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by cp9 2563 days ago
a reminder that "rewrite it in rust" is not usually a ground up rewrite, it's an effort to translate the c into a safer language as you go, it doesn't just burn it down, salt the earth and start over. Have a look at remacs [1] to see how this works in practice.

1: https://github.com/remacs/remacs

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And it will all be well taken if RIIR folks show things they have done themselves instead of telling others what they need to do.
Exactly, stop evangelizing and start doing.