They don't explicitly state that the rewrite is better? They just mention that they reduced the amount of code from 160,000 to 85,000 lines.
Using competing teams for this purpose seems like a waste of money to me.
Using competing teams for this purpose seems like a waste of money to me.
As many others have mentioned though, the real kicker is that they did attempt a rewrite twice in C++ aiming for the features of the rust one; those didn't work out.
You're not wrong! My point was more that we can't take this single data point as proof of Rust's superiority.
That's not how it was done.