[t-writescode]

Why rewrite something with multiple decades of validation and bugs-now-depended-upon-features?

Word and Excel almost certainly have 30 year old C++ code that #must-not-be-touched, bugs and all.

[canucker2016]

So they're going to port Microsoft Edge web browser to Rust?

Are they going to upstream their changes to the Google Chrome-codebase?

[leftbehinds]

Mozilla seems to be doing well after inveting rust and rewriting firefox using rust

[canucker2016]

According to https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ , only 12.3% of Firefox is written in Rust.

[HackerThemAll]

Security. I know it's boring for most, but important for those who need to handle cybersecurity issues.