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What's the argument against possible Rust porting of Postgres?

Because of the interop ease, it's not hard to imagine a multi-year peicemeal rewrite. Postgres' code has some pretty good idioms that could be nicely encoded in Rust, and a good separation of concerns

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The biggest argument against it is falling into the "pure technical" trap.

Postgres has a great focus on solving real problems for real people. Losing that focus would be a disaster.

>What's the argument against possible Rust porting of Postgres?

That's putting the cart before the horse. The right question is:

a) What's the argument in favor of porting Postgres to Rust?

and

b) What's the opportunity cost?

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