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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: 0.297s | 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. robin_reala ◴[12 Dec 25 14:09 UTC] No.46244291[source]▶
Fish did a complete rewrite in Rust, but they did it in the right way.

1. Rewrite each C file in Rust as a 1:1 mapping.

2. Rewrite the Rust to make it idiomatic.

3. Start making structural changes.