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Why not just learn rust? It really is not that exotic to learn. I doubt it is faster to rewrite it.

Yeah, this is just baffling. A team can be so averse to learning new tools, good ones too, that they would rather dump their time into rewriting. Instead of getting paid to level up their skills, they'd rather block forward movement of the company's goals to maintain the status quo.

I'm a bit surprised at this, too.

Trash build times and slow iteration cycle as a result

Build times are pretty good in rust compared to most languages. Where do you get they are trash?

What happened to the developers who wrote the back-end in the first place?

maybe the borrow checker determined their lifetime was up

>The entire back-end ended up being re-written.

In Go, I presume?

I honestly wish I could have been in that boat because I crave the opportunity to use rust on the job.

Same here... Job hunting right now and would love to bridge the gap to primarily using Rust

Nooo :'(