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Embedded Rust in Production?

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205 points michidk | 2 comments | 14 Oct 24 06:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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Do123 ◴[14 Oct 24 08:57 UTC] No.41835611[source]▶
Didn't they just have a shitty implementation written in C (could have been any other language...it's not the language!) and than learned from the past mistakes and written a new implementation in Rust(could have been any other language)? And now the author tries to attribute it's success to Rust?
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alex_suzuki ◴[14 Oct 24 09:03 UTC] No.41835651[source]▶
Maybe. But them the dev wouldn’t have been able to add „Completed a migration of legacy C codebase to Rust with zero issues in production“ to their resume. Also might have been easier to get budget for „build something new to replace old thing“ than „fix pesky bugs in somewhat-working existing thing“.
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1. diggan ◴[14 Oct 24 11:31 UTC] No.41836519[source]▶
Not to mention it could also be more fun, something that sometimes can be more important than we think :)
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2. alex_suzuki ◴[14 Oct 24 12:24 UTC] No.41836855[source]▶
For the dev, absolutely:)