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Then we arrive at Rust as a natural outcome.
And it's of course possible to migrate to Rust from C or C++ progressively, fish has almost got it done.
Did fish migrate progressively tho? I thought they swap out everything at once as soon as the rewrite is ready
Well, they are not going to release in between, but their rewrite still "works" at each commit being a hybrid of Rust and C++.
Ah, alright