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Not Invented Here

This disease is extremely common among programming language developers and enthusiasts. A rust developer or a rust enthusiast just cannot fathom using a generic tool and instead everything has to be rewritten in rust. This applies to pretty much everything that a programmer might use but is especially bad with package managers.

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C and C++ do not have a cross-platform, uniform package manager and build system used by most projects. It’s more of a “not invented” than a “not invented here” situation.

I share both the views of the grandparent and that we should consider rewriting things in Rust. They are not mutually exclusive.

We need ways to package and distribute software written in a variety of languages. Rust should play nice and cooperate with these. That does not exclude that doing things in Rust may give advantages.

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