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by geodel 2563 days ago
> I know RIIR appears to offend a lot of C/C++ devs, and I understand why. I do however, think RIISSL (Rewrite It In Some Safe Language) is a real meaningful thing.

It is not meaningful for open source projects where RIIR or even RIISSL types jump in and start offering unsolicited advice to contributors. These folks can fork and/or make some POC etc if they seriously believe it is a net win.
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ncmncm 2563 days ago
In fact, the amount of successful penetration of RIIR is a direct measure of the wisdom of doing it.

I.e., if it were a good idea, there would be no need for an advocacy. People would just do it. If the ecosystem is ever mature enough, we will know by the counting the number of projects that switch.

But every day, there is the choice: should I improve the product for users, or potter with the build system? Because language choice is really a build system detail, to users.

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asdkhadsj 2563 days ago
Depends, would you not jump in and advocate a project fix fundamental flaws if it affected your production security?

Which don't get me wrong, this is likely not advocatable (is that a word?) to something like Find. I'm not defending that. However C bugs in SSL/Apache/etc are terrifying. A person jumping in and advocating RIISSL is similar (but obviously different) to jumping in and advocating for critical fixes, or perhaps even security audits.

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