alt Hacker News(Shrug) If I want Rust, I'll feed my C++ to an LLM and tell it to port it to Rust. Since we've been assured that Rust magically fixes everything that's wrong, bad, or unsafe about C++, this seems like a sound approach.
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pjmlp • today at 7:44 AM
You missed the other take, with AI assisted coding, you can stay in C++, as it will take care everything is coded with enough care.
Or why bother with Rust, when the LLM gets to generate C++ code with best practices.
While I like Rust, I think AI as the next abstraction step in programming has kind of taken its relevance away, when computer assisted programming is part of the workflow.
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We probably aren't that far off actually. Even taking asm with no symbols back into rust works well. You have truth, just have the agent repeat until the asm matches. Doesn't work on giant codebases, but on a few functions it absolutely does. And while the llm may get the algorithm wrong, the type system does seem to help it generate useful code in rust for a starting place v