Moving From C++ to Rust? Clickhouse Has Some Advice

Clickhouse is an open source analytics-oriented database system composed of 1.5 million lines of code, mostly in C++, a notoriously unsafe language in terms of hiding bugs that could be exploited by malicious attackers.

Often it has been written, even here at The New Stack, that the Rust programming language could replace C/C++ with its superior handling of memory and thread safety. And there are many large code bases, such as the Linux kernel (C) and Windows (C++) written with some decades-old variant language, so many are asking themselves…