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		happyweasel on Oct 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons learned from a successful Rust rewrite The only real comparison would be a rewrite in modern c++ and then compare that to the rewrite in rust. Also the author mentioned that the original code had no tests at all. Well, good luck.

jerf on Oct 30, 2024 [–]

Well, the great Software Engineering As Science conundrum is that nobody can afford to run studies like that, let alone enough of them to get some sort of statistically significant sample.

So we just have to do our best.

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