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		tsjq on Sept 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Transmission torrent client ported to C++ " could've ported to Rust instead " kthxbye ;)

omnicognate on Sept 13, 2021 [–]

That would have been a rewrite. This change is to get the existing C codebase to compile with a C++ compiler, which is orders of magnitude less work.

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