alt Hacker News> I submitted several bug fixes and refactoring, notably using smart pointers, but they were rejected for fear of breaking something.
And that, my friends, is why you want a memory safe language with as many static guarantees as possible checked automatically by the compiler.
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axelriet • today at 6:38 AM
I was waiting for that comment :) Remember that everybody, eventually, calls into code written in C.
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bayindirh • today at 10:45 AM
They could have started with simple Valgrind sessions before moving to Rust though. Massive number of agents means microservices, and microservices are suitable for profiling/testing like that.
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flohofwoe • today at 10:52 AM
Did you miss the part that writes about the "all new code is written in Rust" order coming from the top? It also failed miserably.
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Hence the rewrite-it-in-Rust initiative, presumably. Management were aware of this problem at some level but chose a questionable solution. I don't think rewriting everything in Rust is at all compatible with their feature timelines or severe shortages of systems programming talent.