Why are we doing this again?

We’ve experienced some pain with C++. In short:

• tools and compiler/platform differences
• ergonomics and (thread) safety
• community

Preach. make install is the biggest source of "works on my machine" ever. (obviously exaggerating). You could point me at 99% of all C++ projects that have dependencies and it ./configure && make install wouldn't work on any of my machines. "Oh of course you need to install the dependencies, just sudo apt get" let me stop you right there, I don't have debian. And with that you're on your own with C/C++ projects.

Everything else in that chapter plays a big part in my departure from C++. ~30 years of existence and they have barely learned from their missteps.

We’ve succeeded. This was a gigantic project and we made it. The sheer scale of this is perhaps best expressed in numbers:

• 1155 files changed, 110247 insertions(+), 88941 deletions(-) (excluding translations)
• 2604 commits by over 200 authors
• 498 issues
• Almost 2 years of work
• 57K Lines of C++ to 75K Lines of Rust 5 (plus 400 lines of C 6)
• C++–

Wow. What an amazing job 👏

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