Then what chance do we have of cleaning it up?<p>It does seem to me though that if you pre-processed it for a common case and translated it to rust with anything going into unsafe if it has to and started from that you would be off to some sort of start.<p>The whole thing seems moot though because there are already alternate libc implementations like musl as well as alternate malloc implementations like jemalloc.<p>I actually still don&#x27;t understand why libc is the undertaking it is made out to be, especially if you can plug in jemalloc which I would think would take care of the most difficult part.