> I do not really agree with respect to C. I often have to deal with C code written by unexperienced programmers. It is always relatively easy to refactor it step by step.
Really? How confident are you to change a data structure that uses an array with linear search lookup to a dictionary? Or a pointer that now is nullable (or is now never null)?
Unless you have rigorous test or the code is something trivial, this would be a project of its own.
I am pretty sure I can swap out the implementation of the dictionary in the rust compiler and by the time the compilation issues are worked out, the code would be correct by the end of it (even before running the tests)
Really? How confident are you to change a data structure that uses an array with linear search lookup to a dictionary? Or a pointer that now is nullable (or is now never null)?
Unless you have rigorous test or the code is something trivial, this would be a project of its own.
I am pretty sure I can swap out the implementation of the dictionary in the rust compiler and by the time the compilation issues are worked out, the code would be correct by the end of it (even before running the tests)