[danpalmer]

Most software is not a single finished artifact though, it's a community, a process, knowledge, documentation, and mindshare. This has none of those, so by default it'll die as a project immediately.

To gain any of those is a much bigger problem: is the code structured well enough to get contributors over? Do the contributors know Rust? What about all the open bug reports? What about the edge cases that aren't triggered by the benchmarked projects, how do you even find them?

[baq]

...what's the point?

pylint keeps being developed, maintained as usual, etc. and the LLM conversion pipeline (little more than "rewrite the diff in rust, make no mistakes" in a loop) runs in the background. why do you care about it? do you care about maintainability of the output of your C compiler?