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by nindalf 551 days ago
A company that works with SQLite and prefers to write Rust has the expertise needed to rewrite SQLite in Rust. That’s what they’re doing.

All the other C code could be rewritten, this doesn’t stop or slow down any such effort. But for sure it was never going to be possible for a database provider to start making a memory safe implementation of libpng or something.