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		cormacrelf on Oct 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code y... FYI, there's an effort at the moment to translate XeTeX and dvipdfmx into Rust. Started with c2rust, now we have a test suite checking regressions against the entire arXiv archive. Contributors welcome. https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic

fortran77 on Oct 28, 2019 [–]

Why? It works fine. Does _everything_ need to be in Rust, or whatever the new language-of-the-day is?

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