# Why hasn't Discourse been rewritten in Rust?

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**Created:** [July 15, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-hasnt-discourse-been-rewritten-in-rust/316333 "2024-07-15T14:21:14Z")\
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I suspect currently the greatest time taken during build is the front end compilation, so “Go or no” is moot wrt build time.

Neither Rust nor Go would be replacing the front end …

(PS I love Go too … )

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