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by onlyrealcuzzo 17 days ago
> So what did the rewrite actually accomplish?

Hype.

On an aside, isn't Zig supposed to have much faster compile times than Rust, and didn't they give that as the main reason Zig wasn't working for them and why they wanted to switch to Rust?

The whole thing seems insane. I don't know why anyone would switch to Rust for any reason besides the obvious: to get REAL memory safety.

If you're doing that... You wouldn't wrap ~90% of your important code in `unsafe` blocks.

You're doing a ton of work for virtually no benefit, and - if anything - a lot of negatives.

Everything I've read and heard about this port raises more questions than answers, and not in a good way.