alt Hacker NewsI don’t think that assumption holds. For example, only recently have agents started getting Rust code right on the first try, but that hasn’t mattered in the past because the rust compiler and linters give such good feedback that it immediately fixes whatever goof it made.
This does fill up context a little faster, (1) not as much as debugging the problem would have in a dynamic language, and (2) better agentic frameworks are coming that “rewrite” context history for dynamic on the fly context compression.
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> because the rust compiler and linters give such good feedback that it immediately fixes whatever goof it made.
I still experience agents slipping in a `todo!` and other hacks to get code to compile, lint, and pass tests.
The loop with tests and doc tests are really nice, agreed, but it'll still shit out bad code.
> only recently have agents started getting Rust code right on the first try
This is such a silly thing to say. Either you set the bar so low that "hello world" qualifies or you expect LLMs to be able to reason about lifetimes, which they clearly cannot. But LLMs were never very good at full-program reasoning in any language.
I don't see this language fixing this, but it's not trying to—it just seems to be removing cruft
> that hasn’t mattered in the past because the rust compiler and linters give such good feedback that it immediately fixes whatever goof it made.
This isn't even true today. Source: heavy user of claude code and gemini with rust for almost 2 years now.