Outlook seems bleak

Posted Sep 1, 2024 13:18 UTC (Sun) by SLi (subscriber, #53131)
In reply to: Outlook seems bleak by b7j0c
Parent article: Rust-for-Linux developer Wedson Almeida Filho drops out

In my experience it's not the management that will ask for expensive rewrites without new features.

Outlook seems bleak

Posted Sep 3, 2024 4:08 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

In this particular case, the "new feature" a lot of management (and engineers) are asking is called "memory safety".

Management is finally waking up to the cost of vulnerabilities - and of quality/sloppiness more generally speaking. Better late than never.

Outlook seems bleak

Posted Sep 7, 2024 17:02 UTC (Sat) by SLi (subscriber, #53131) [Link]

I didn't mean to imply Rust has no benefit. I like the language; the "no new features" tried to capture the core of "rewrite" (or also refactoring). I just mean to say that in my experience management wants to see new features, not rewrites, and you will get pushback if you say something needs to be rewritten or refactored. Often that's good—sometimes (especially slightly novice) devs tend to imagine a rewrite as a quick silver bullet. But usually it's the engineers who push for a rewrite, not management.