[mrkeen]

I have some toy search technology (indexer and query processor). I started in C and did a series of rewrites, learning and changing something significant each time.

On version 6 I switched to Rust (having only just started learning the language) and it feels pretty unlikely I'd switch back.

The rookie mistake isn't to want a rewrite. It's to ridicule something you haven't tried in earnest.

[nerdponx]

Nobody is ridiculing Rust. They are ridiculing flippant requests by non-contributors to rewrite non-trivial software in another language.