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C2Rust with Stephen Crane

Rustacean Station

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Incremental Translation vs Complete From Scratch Re-Write

With incremental translation versus a complete from scratch re-rate, you're starting from a point where your tests pass. And that's important because now you have a starting point where if you make changes and the tests fail, you know you did something wrong and you broke it. Of course not everything is going to catch in every test, but at least for projects that have good test suites or good ways to fuzz them, you're already starting from a working project. It really comes down to if you're going to rewrite in Rust, which is a big question, you should figure that out first.

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