"Try reading the thread again" is extremely condescending.
> Rust doesn’t protect you against bugs like Shellshock. They protect against bugs like Heartbleed. But people frequently forget about the former when focusing on the latter. So absolutely we need to be considered when replacing battle tested software with an entirely new code. It’s not an unfair meme when people state this.
Like I said, over half of security bugs are the kind of bug that Rust protects you against, whereas the other half (apparently more like a quarter, per side thread) is every other category of bug put together. So unless your model is that every other category of bug will be significantly increased by a rewrite, the rewrite wins out on net.
> If it were an easy and risk free upgrade then we’d have already done so in one of the other safer languages that predate Rust. A lot of what’s changed between then and now isn’t that languages have gotten better, it’s simply that Rust is trendier than any of the safer languages before them.
Per another side thread, I do agree that the reason people are rewriting in Rust now when they weren't rewriting in OCaml 10 years ago is mostly trendiness. But I disagree about which of those two decisions is the mistake.
