Probably for the ease of coding extensions — which strikes me as outdated thinking: if it’s open source and you’re outsourcing the coding to LLMs, why not use a compiled, safe language?

There’s an interesting counter example for DeepSeek called CodeWhale, though:

https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale

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Wowfunhappy 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Also isn't OpenAI's Codex written in Rust?

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pohl an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t think so. The ChatGPT app was, which is the “Classic” app now. The Codex app that they’re carrying forward is an Electron app and if you forget to quit it before you walk away it’ll make even your M5 Max unresponsive eventually. Sad days.

	▲	Wowfunhappy an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Sorry, I meant the Codex CLI harness. I don't understand why OpenAI decided to start using the "Codex" name for everything.

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hocuspocus 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Codex, Kiro, Grok Build. Pi has a clone in Rust too.

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edgyquant 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t think so it’s an npm package iirc

	▲	ceehex 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		you can install binaries with npm too, not just limited to js