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		weatherlite on May 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything ... You can replace C for new code (arguably) but how the hell does one replace legacy C? Can Unix realistically be rewritten in something else? Or Postgres?

linkdd on May 3, 2022 | [–]

Or SQLite - https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html

weatherlite on May 3, 2022 | | [–]

The list is very long. And also I'm not sure for all use cases Rust is a better C.

sanxiyn on May 3, 2022 | [–]

Postgres certainly can. It's less than two million lines of code. Just Firefox has more Rust code than entire Postgres.

weatherlite on May 3, 2022 | [–]

It's possible, just doesn't make much financial sense so I'm not expecting it to happen.

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