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why not Rewrite It In Rust

12 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2017-03-31 · latest 2025-11-21

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  1. Oh man, these are great. Check out https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/ for more. Gosh... and people on HN tell us that they have yet to meet a Rust fanatic. Just look around the GitHub Issues I linked. --- BTW I stumbled upon…
    comment by johnisgood · 2025-11-21 · in The Lions Operating System
  2. …look at the canonical repository tracking this, it's got 44 total issues, most of which are jokes https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues If you search GitHub for issues with these words in it, you get some, but many are either obvious jokes,…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2021-09-08 · in Maintain It with Zig
  3. Slightly joking: https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR (EDIT: I'd not propose to actually rewrite existing infra in Rust, but at least flatpack 3.0 or whatever the next version would be, would benefit from this)
    comment by berkes · 2021-06-03 · in Next Steps for the GNOME Foundation
  4. …being rewritten in Rust. Let's look at the most recent five issues, to pick a random sample: * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/62 This is showing a branch that the team themselves made. It is not an outside demand to re-write it in…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2021-03-23 · in Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux
  5. …"Rewrite it in Rust" domain, and there is a collection of it being suggested in a lot of places: https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR - [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26561093
  6. You can post your opinion here: https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/
  7. …it is too late for beta, too early for R3, but send a PR with your changes nevertheless..." https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/35 https://transitiontech.ca/random/RIIR
    comment by qwna · 2018-07-06 · in The State of Rust on Haiku
  8. …tps://github.com/spencereir/pharbot/issues/1 is being meme-y so probably not serious, still annoying. https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/35 is on a repo specifically to track this phenomenon. It has 35 issues open. Many of which aren't…
  9. https://transitiontech.ca/random/RIIR https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues :-))
  10. https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR
    comment by fetbaffe · 2017-06-28 · in Ubuntu Systemd Vulnerability