Cloudflare is rewriting everything in Rust
tonyedgecombe · hn · 2026-10-22
An HN discussion around kerkour.com's piece on Cloudflare's ongoing shift to Rust across large parts of its infrastructure, covering motivations like memory safety and performance, plus the engineering trade-offs of rewriting mature systems.
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