This is from rustconf. A lot of the focus at Rustconf this year has been C++ interop, Python Interop, Javascript interop -- it's no longer about "rewrite it in rust", it's about being part of the ecosystem.

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bluGill 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Good. As a C+++ programmer Rust has some things that intrigue me. However I have no desire to rewrite everything in rust and so interoperability has been what is holding me back.

We rewrote everything a few years back, completing in 2014 (Rust 1.0 came in 2015) - it costs nearly a billion dollars! I cannot in good conscience go back to management and ask for another billion dollars to rewrite again (Rust might be more productive, but inflation will eat that up, so I expect a rewrite to be more expensive). If Rust can work with my existing code though - I know of a number of small places where there is reason to rewrite anyway because the code is bad (or sometimes was good but not nicely flexible for the features we have added since).

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tyre 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What were you working on that cost a billion dollars to rewrite? Or was that hyperbole?

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bluGill 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Real numbers. I can't say what directly, but you can make a good guess if you read my comment history. (I don't think this would be worth your time, but you could)

	▲	redox99 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Btw grok found out in less than ten seconds what place you refer to and likely what software within that company. Things that wouldn't be worth your time before are trivial these days with LLMs.

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