alt Hacker NewsThe root comment here said this:
> All this "rewrite it in rust for safety" just sounds stupid when you can compile your C program completely memory safe.
All of the points about Rust were made in that context, and they've pushed back against it successfully enough that now you're trying to argue from the other side as if it disproves their point. No one here is saying that there's no point in having safer C code or that literally everything needs to get rewritten; they're just pointing out that yes, there is a concrete advantage that something in Rust has over something in C today even with Fil-C available.
There are many concrete disadvantages to writing things in Rust too, not to mention rewriting. But you are right, these are different solutions and they thus have different characteristics.
As for your "as if it disproves their point" stuff is wrong. The fact is, the reply to a comment in a thread is not a reply to a different one. You are implicitly setting up a straw man like "See, you are saying there are NO advantages to using Rust over Fil-C" and I never said that at any point. I also didn't say that you said that there was no advantage to using Fil-C.