alt Hacker NewsIt's on the agenda! We definitely want to rewrite the Hegel core server in rust, but not as much as we wanted to get it working well first.
My personal hope is that we can port most of the Hypothesis test suite to hegel-rust, then point Claude at all the relevant code and tell it to write us a hegel-core in rust with that as its test harness. Liam thinks this isn't going to work, I think it's like... 90% likely to get us close enough to working that we can carry it over the finish line. It's not a small project though. There are a lot of fiddly bits in Hypothesis, and the last time I tried to get Claude to port it to Rust the result was better than I expected but still not good enough to use.
To put it on the record: my position is current models can't get us there, and neither can the next iteration of models, but in two model iterations this will be worth doing. There's a lot of fiddly details in Hypothesis that are critical to get right. You can get a plausible 80% port with agents today but find they've structured it in a way to make it impossible to get to 100%.