Think about your question, depending on the tool, Rust might not be needed, is high level memory performance and safety needed in a coding agent ? Probably not.

It's high speed iteration of release ? Might be needed, Interpreted or JIT compiled ? might be needed.

Without knowing all the requirements its just your workspace preference making your decision and not objectively the right tool for the job.

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virtualritz 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have a 16GB RAM laptop. It's a beast I bought in 2022.

It's all I need for my work.

RAM on this machine can't be upgraded. No issue when running a few Codex instances.

Claude: forget it.

That's why something like Rust makes a lot of sense.

Even more now, as RAM prices are becoming a concern.

	▲	bilekas 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Claude: forget it. I don't know what else you're doing but the footprint of Claude is minor. Anyway my point still stands, you're looking at it as if they are competing languages and one is better at all things. That just not how things work.

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LelouBil 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

While not directly related to GP, I would guess that a codebase developped with a coding agent (I assume Claude code is used to work on itself) would benefit from a stricter type system (one important point of Rust)

	▲	bilekas 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		TypeScript is typed.. It's in the name ?