[staticassertion]

Yeah I think that's an absurd reduction. Rewriting code means that you can solve fundamental architectural issues, that you can start fresh with better tooling, that you have the lessons learned without the technical debt, etc.

[ddevault]

Yeah, but why the assumption that those things are an issue? We're talking about mature codebases. Rewriting it again in C would also give you a chance to start fresh with better tooling, lessons learned, paying back tech debt, etc. Even still, you're going to introduce new bugs in the process. You might fix a few hard-to-address architectural issues, but all of the other bugs would be easier to fix in the original codebase than by rewriting the whole thing.

I'm not saying that a rewrite is never justified, but rather that the argument that we should rewrite in Rust simply to avoid bugs has little weight.