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Why not create a new program with a different name instead of rewriting it? It's a new program at that point anyway.

Edit: seems the article confused me with the word rewriting when the source homepage and repository says reimplemention, which makes more sense.

Because then you end up with multiple versions of a critical tool, which drift out of sync, and create more vulnerabilities.

(e.g., look at the bluetooth/hci interface on linux.)

Compared to rewriting something which never reintroduces issues rust been fixed in the past?

I see what you mean, but there is further muddying of the waters as Prossimo themselves use the term "rewriting" here: