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by cornholio 3 hours ago
> rewriting a big widely used project in a stricter language is always a good thing

Always might be a too strong word. Rust is, by design, a language with low development velocity.

So you risk: 1. ossification of the current architecture and deferment of important features; or 2. reliance on AI coding to recover velocity.

Maybe for some 2 does not look like a risk, but I think it's too early to call. We have yet to see the effects of extensively using these tools on large scale projects, for years and decades.