alt Hacker NewsExcept that writing safe rust often requires designing the architecture around rust's ownership model, meaning a file by file, line by line translation doesn't necessarily leave you much closer to safe rust than you were at the start.
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Klonoar • yesterday at 5:11 PM
It’s fully possible to have scoped areas of borrow checker influence, which could be introduced after the port.
This is untrue. You can do a file by file translation by using clone and copy liberally. After you're done, you can incrementally introduce borrowing.