The AI Rewrite Dilemma

There have been multiple ongoing efforts (see Appendix below), and debates , regarding porting bioinformatics tools to Rust. These include two rewrites of minimap2. Here are some of my current reflections, which may change in the future. From a purely technical standpoint, I believe AI rewrites, especially in Rust, benefit the field. Rust will not only speed up bioinformatics tools in Python and R…