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by rhaps0dy 201 days ago
Possible! But fixing this seems easier than re-writing in Rust with reasonable expectation that the software behaves the same?
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It depends. There's a lot of code out there old enough that reproducing is effectively lost knowledge. But also, there is some evidence that bugs are more common in new code, so rewriting that is a good idea.