So many people are fundamentally misunderstanding everything about this rewrite.

In fact using the word "rewrite" itself is pretty inaccurate.

As has been mentioned the goal was a port so they "could" eventually rewrite most of it to be idiomatic rust. The main benefit of this now is the compiler and being able to use these tools to fix issues that were already being hidden when it was in zig.

If you go into this codebase expecting to see idiomatic rust and get angry when it's not there, you are going in with the entirely incorrect attitude.

It's understandable how people see it as AI slop or whatever given the division among developers at the moment. But please see it for what it is instead of just jumping to conclusions.