I think this is more about the licence, the Rust rewrite just makes it easier to swallow/gain contributors.
replySame here. Love Rust. Hate rust rewrites.
replyCan vouch for the sentiment, hence why regardless of the ranting, I am quite supportive of whatever helps to improve C and C++ security story.
replyAlso for Rust based rewrites, they could start by bootstraping Rust compiler itself, dependent on C++ to start it.
They don't do it, because even though LLVM and GCC are written in C++, a pure Rust compiler would not scale to the same level of contributions, and existing capabilities.
The worst thing about rust are the people using it.
replyMy impression is that go developers moved to rust.
replyI doubt it, as Rust approach to language design is the antithesis of Go's culture.
replyI would appreciate Go much more otherwise.