[phkahler]

One of my favorite apps at the moment seems like it could benefit from a rewrite, in part because core pieces have long standing bugs that may only be solved by someone doing the very deep dive a rewrite would entail. I thought long term it might be nice if it were written in Rust. But rather than suggest RIIR I considered writing a component of it in Rust myself. That would be educational for me and would bring something new to the "Rust ecosystem". Having written similar code before (in C++) I realized just how huge a task rewriting just a core component would be. It could take a decade or more to rewrite an entire program in any language even with all devs working on it.

Look at Servo. Hey, they started building a browser in Rust! And some of those components are useful in Firefox. But Servo itself might never become a fully functional browser. And that's a project from the folks that created Rust and Firefox. So maybe a response to RIIR could be "Yeah, when is Servo going to be done?"