Rust's Downfall: From Rising Star to Rejected by Major Projects(freedium-mirror.cfd)

10 pointsby e145bc455f16 hours ago2 comments

goku124 hours ago
Why does this misleading article from more than a year ago get posted repeatedly?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510073
This submission doesn't mention the publish time either, and it uses the link that hides a bunch of replies that debunk the article.
sgt6 hours ago
Might it see a popularity burst though, due to Rust's inherent advantage in AI augmented development? Being more deterministic makes it easier for LLM's to produce working code in it.
- eimrine5 hours ago
  There is not such an advancement, Rust is made for dealing with human's mistakes. Chatbots can stop having such a mistakes and generate more terse formal specs instead.
  - wookmaster5 hours ago
    Aren’t they trained on human code?
    eimrine5 hours ago
    What am I supposed to say, they were trained on Martians' code?
    Do I need to agreed with your statement that chatbot will never be able to write a correct C code without stupid runtime boundaries?
    goku124 hours ago
    The question by @wookmaster isn't just valid, if we're to follow your argument, chatbots may as well skip C and write directly in assembly or machine code for maximum efficiency! You seem to put too much faith in chatbots that you forget that correcting AI mistakes in code is a major job now. Even the best coders use AI to only fill in obvious code, not to think on their behalf.
    eimrine3 hours ago
    I have opinion that you do not understand the importance of C after reading your claim about so-called efficiency in systems programming code. You have got so carried away with defending the stupid untestable run-time checks, enough to ignore things like ABI, cross-platformness, developed datatype system and compiler optimizations with respect to hardware quirks such as cachelines.
    What you have called a major job did not even remotely exist 4 years ago, it is laughable if to remind the Lindy effect.