Answered from Microsoft Distinguished Eng: Why And How To Port Your Entire Codebase to Rust | Stephen Toub · Ryan Peterman · 2026-11-02
Stephen Toub said a business rewrite needs a clear return on investment: what value it delivers, what it costs and whether the trade is worth it. He cited customers moving from .NET Framework to .NET Core who could weigh, say, $3 million a year in saved server costs against a developer-year of porting, and his own .NET regex engine work, where two weeks making patterns four times faster could be priced against a service's spend.
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