Yeah, I&#x27;m not saying that a rewrite is necessarily a bad idea or that it wouldn&#x27;t improve things (though writing a drop-in replacement for something like glibc in Rust sounds pretty challenging to me).  The situation I&#x27;m talking about is the one where no one has an incentive to improve the software day-to-day.  If we really want to fix the problem, we should also look at how it got that way.