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by fmeringdal 1040 days ago
Interesting! You could follow me on Github to get notified when the repo is made public. Other than that I will probably do a Show HN and post it to Reddit as well.

It will mostly be a straight port as I think that is the optimal way to rewrite a codebase from one language to another. First step is to do an almost line by line copy paste from Go to Rust and then port the test suite and get that passing. At this point I would do a major refactoring where I can rely on the test suite to make sure I don't break anything and ensure the codebase is idiomatic Rust. Once that is done we can start extending the project with additional features.

Live replication from S3 sounds cool so please open a more detailed GH issue to describe the use-case for it once the repo is public!