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What's the point of that? The C version has been around for ages, works well, and is GPL'ed. Reexamining the code carefully for a rewrite does provide the opportunity to catch some bugs, but the rewrite will most likely introduce countless new bugs. It's not clear what is gained by the Rust rewrite, it's not like Rust is faster than C, it should be very similar or perhaps slower.


The point is that they get to rewrite it in their favourite language.


The point is virtue signaling. There is no technical merit to it.




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