This isn't going to show what the community generally thinks about rust.
Rewriting a popular program is a huge, bug-ridden, incompatibility-generating exercise. I wouldn't advocate rewriting a popular program in any language - unless its downsides in its current form are so glaring that a rewrite is in fact the best solution. And then the choice of language would depend on what features the program needs most.
I generally believe that if you have the time, making a program memory-safe is a good idea. Honestly, when people make open-source clones of software, I think that's a very good thing.
Not only can this help the community have memory-safe code to read, learn from, and use, but it can also help you get better as a programmer.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 215 ms ] threadRewriting a popular program is a huge, bug-ridden, incompatibility-generating exercise. I wouldn't advocate rewriting a popular program in any language - unless its downsides in its current form are so glaring that a rewrite is in fact the best solution. And then the choice of language would depend on what features the program needs most.
Not only can this help the community have memory-safe code to read, learn from, and use, but it can also help you get better as a programmer.