People have been rewriting software in better languages ever since there was more than one programming language. Eventually people will be rewriting Rust programs in GoombaLang or whatever. Isn't this what we want?

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uecker 8 minutes ago | parent [-]

I don't think this is what we want. We want people to maintain and incrementally improve existing software and tooling and not rewrite and change things all the time.

	▲	slopinthebag 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		A rewrite doesn't need to actually change the public API or experience using the software. But by rewriting software, even in the same language we can learn from past mistakes and experiences and create better and more maintainable software.