| ▲ | mjhay 2 hours ago |
| I used to like rust, but I feel like I’m being Pavlovian-conditioned to recoil at its mention now. |
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| ▲ | Aurornis 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This is Linux 0.11 from 1991. Someone is having fun with a side experiment that has no practical real-world implications. This stuff is supposed to be fun and we should celebrate when other people are doing fun, pointless things like this. If you're interested then ignore it and move on. There's no need to get involved or comment if a project of no consequence is uninteresting to you personally |
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| ▲ | Krutonium 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I still like it. People are having fun playing with their toy and tool. I have no problem with that. |
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| ▲ | mjhay 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I shouldn’t have been so negative. I still very much like Rust, but hearing about these AI rewrites constantly is tiresome. | | |
| ▲ | willx86 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'd prefer reading about a rust rewrite then a saas paas CMS integration web thing on the latest framework
It'll probably go nowhere, but it's cool to see people test the limits of what they can do and I can't watch without spending a penny Kinda like jackass, fascinating to watch but damn I do not want to do it |
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| ▲ | fsckboy 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | People are having fun with AI coding, and I have no problem with that, but I am sick of hearing about it. |
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| ▲ | block_dagger 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I have the opposite feeling; I am liking Rust more and more and thinking most of the world's C code should be rewritten. It seems like a sweet spot of enforced memory safety, performance, and human/agent readability. |
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| ▲ | skor 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | why rewrite if you can check for and fix bugs? If you are thinking of AI fixing bugs is less expensive | | |
| ▲ | tarokun-io 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I think Rust (the compiler / borrow checker) kinda finds bugs for you, some of which C/C++ does not. In that sense, rewriting some code in Rust _may_ be cheaper than fixing the existing code. It may also be more welcoming to newer devs, since Rust can be easier to reason about, which is a long-term investment. The borrow checker also helps with AI (as long as you don't let the AI use `unsafe`, or completely control what primitives in your codebase are allowed to use unsafe and never vibe-code any of it) — at least, the agent can't stop until `cargo build` passes. I've also had better experience locally building applications in Rust than in C/C++. `cd ripgrep; cargo install --path .` or `cargo install ripgrep` usually just work, while `make` is usually painful. | |
| ▲ | minimaxir 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Memory bugs are unknown unknowns that AI may or may not catch. There's net-present-value in switching to a language where certain types of memory bugs are impossible. | |
| ▲ | ImaCake 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I guess ask the bun people why they translated from zig to rust. I think it was essentially because rust guarantees a set of bugs can't exist so over medium to long term timeframes you end up with less technical debt. | |
| ▲ | insanitybit 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | > If you are thinking of AI fixing bugs is less expensive Because I don't think this. A rewrite is cheaper to me. |
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| ▲ | minimaxir 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Of all the tools in software engineering to be overpopular and overused, Rust is an instance where that is a very good thing. Atleast people aren't AI rewriting things into PHP. |
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| ▲ | treyd an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Can you elaborate on what causes that reaction specifically? |
