When management decides it's time to rewrite that ancient C++ codebase in Rust for "memory safety" and "fearless concurrency," the Rust developer is up top having an existential crisis while the C++ legacy code just sleeps peacefully below, unbothered and battle-tested.
The Rust dev is probably dealing with the borrow checker screaming about lifetimes, trying to figure out why Box<dyn Trait> won't compile, and questioning every life decision that led to this moment. Meanwhile, the C++ code has been running in production for 15 years with only minor segfaults on Tuesdays.
The positioning is perfect: Rust developer literally above the problem, overthinking everything, while the legacy code is just vibing in blissful ignorance with its raw pointers and undefined behavior.
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