This is a fairly crap post and the reasoning isn't sound but somehow the conclusion is still somewhat correct.

You do want to use Rust with LLMs.

The reason you want it is simple, it's more constrained.

LLMs thrive on constraint and drown in freedom.

The further you can constraint the solution space the more likely you are to end up with a solution you like/is actually good.

Rust has several properties that make it really good for LLMs:

* Really robust type system that is also very expressive, if guided LLMs can implement most of the invariants in types which substantially increases the chances of success.

* Great compile time errors, the specificity and brevity (vs say C++ template expansion) means token efficient correction of syntax and/or borrow mistakes etc.

* Protection against subtle errors at compile time, namely data races and memory safety issues.

* Great corpus of well designed code and patterns, higher quality on average than some other ecosystems more favored by begineers/mass-market programming.

* Stdlib is strong, small-ish number of blessed crates.

* Context friendly, type signatures, errors, etc are all dense information.

* Also bias towards compile time checks means less runtime tests which means less toolcall time (and less tests needed overall) which in turn makes the process a ton faster.

I have been continually using Rust, Python and Kotlin since ~Jan this year and keeping track of my thoughts and I increasingly bias towards Rust now where I would have previously chosen Python or Kotlin instead just because I am lazy and I prefer the tool that the computer writes better so I have to write less lol.