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The Tor Project is switching to Rust

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348 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 12 Dec 25 12:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.27s | source
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jjgreen ◴[12 Dec 25 12:59 UTC] No.46243706[source]▶
Complete rewrites are always a bad idea ... [mutters of agreement] ... except in Rust! [cheering]
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1. dodomodo ◴[12 Dec 25 13:10 UTC] No.46243792[source]▶
Comelete rewrite are not always bad, they are _just_ very costly. You just need to do cost benefit analsys and compare it with the cost and benefit of other actions.