alt Hacker NewsOne metric I thought might be interesting with respect to the Rust rewrite is the number of "unsafe" occurrences in the code.
I was optimistic those would be going down over time but it looks like they've stayed pretty constant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966569#48967630
Does that data exclude FFI wrappers, which necessarily must be unsafe? If not, don’t put much stock in it.