> software talibans

I will note that, very funny

Often the biggest blocker on moving to a new programming language, is the cost of re-writing everything.

Cue some story here on a bank or airline somewhere still relying on cobol backend servers.

These LLM conversions really seem to make modernization of large parts software layers possible!

> significant part of the rust community consists of software talibans

I seriously don't get it though. Rust is a nice language, but so is X. However we don't see X people brigading existing projects with constant bombardment with "rewritten in X". What is that about Rust that prompts this behavior?

> Why should a developer use this for anything beyond a pet project?

If it _is_ 50% faster, then that's the reason

Obviously like any new database it's very risky to use so probably only used for niche use cases at first, but if it turns out to be just as reliable as postgres and faster then why not?

How exactly are rewriting something the equivalent of being the taliban?

I think this shouldn't be taken too seriously, from what I understand it's an exploration of what's possible with today's LLMs.

You're right to talk about the trend though, because what it shows is how the cost of re-writing well covered project has completely crashed, so that in itself is a learning.