Can’t escape AI slop projects from meat proxies man. Every single open source project smells like Claude Code recently. Sad times.
Can’t escape AI slop projects from meat proxies man. Every single open source project smells like Claude Code recently. Sad times.
I’m a professional software engineer writing Rust for many years now.
Honestly, I am very happy that AI is using Rust. Much better that AI uses Rust than Python! If you think AI written Rust is bad, you have no idea how sloppy AI written Python is.
Rust is a great language. Turns out the same stuff that makes it great for humans also makes it great for agents. This is not a bad thing, this is a win-win.
Historically, Rust’s biggest disadvantage has been how hard the language is to write and how much you sometimes need to fight the compiler. This disadvantage is quite effectively mitigated by AI, since you can let the AI fight the compiler and write most of the code. So you get all the advantages that Rust brings with basically none of the downsides.
I’m just happy that Rust was invented before LLMs. If Rust did not exist before LLMs, the code the AIs would be writing would be a lot worse.
Hope that answers it.
We understand you perfectly well; Rust is fine, too, but no language can take the place of C. I mean, wouldn’t it have been better if it had been written in C?
Why do you say that? I definitely think Rust can take the place of C. Not just can actually, I’d go as far as to say that Rust should take the place of C. C is much too unsafe to be used in today’s age. There’s really no excuse to use a memory unsafe language today if you’re starting something new.
It would not have been better if it was written in C. Rust is just as fast and much better.
I actually like Rust too, and I’m not against it; however, C is currently the best-known programming language in the world. Still, I like your idea.
How does “written in C” make something better?
People used to say the same things about the Linux kernel, but its current state is actually quite good. In other words, C is a standard and robust language.