Codex is written in rust, fyi... Not that I disagree.

umvi 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Oh, I haven't been keeping up. I assumed it was still TS since it prompts me to run npm all the time.

They just use npm as a binary delivery mechanism, for whatever reason (I guess they expect all their users to have npm?)

	▲	judge2020 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's pretty darn ubiquitous, yeah. Plus enterprises tend to run npm mirrors, so delivery integrates into existing IT compliance frameworks.

lynx97 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Which generates unnecessarily huge binaries.

	▲	rfgplk 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's because they statically linked it, and probably rely on a trillion pointless crates (as is standard in Rust development). A good statically linked harness can easily be ~5MB MAX