To believe you can code “excellence” at all, within which is an imperfect system is funny.
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there is definitely excellence in software: sqlite, wireguard, tigerbeetle, strfry, core-lightning, and lots more.
....and i was just reading that sqlite is getting rewritten in rust.
https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite-of-sqlite-in-rust