Poll: Rewriting popular programs in Rust is a good practice

Just wanted to see what the community generally thinks about Rust.

  • This isn't going to show what the community generally thinks about rust.

    Rewriting a popular program is a huge, bug-ridden, incompatibility-generating exercise. I wouldn't advocate rewriting a popular program in any language - unless its downsides in its current form are so glaring that a rewrite is in fact the best solution. And then the choice of language would depend on what features the program needs most.