Writing it in Rust gets visibility because of the popularity of the language on HN.
Here's why we are not doing it for LadybugDB.
Would love to explore a more gradual/incremental path.
Also focusing on just one query language: strongly typed cypher.
https://vldb.org/cidrdb/2023/kuzu-graph-database-management-...
You can judge for yourself what work has been done in the last 5 months. Many short videos here. New open source contributors who I didn't know before ramping up.
In your discussion the first comment from an ex kuzu dev made an excellent point that rust for databases in an excellent language to ship faster with confidence while reducing real problems of concurrency and corruption.
At some point it becomes intellectual dishonesty to dismiss a language because of vibes instead of merit.
But rewriting a complex working piece of software in Rust is not trivial. Having an incremental path (where only parts are rewritten in Rust and compatible with C++ code) would be a good path to get there.
Also open to new code and extensions getting written in Rust.