alt Hacker NewsI am not trolling, but I have a simple question: Why? Why do I use this instead of the official build? What is the business case?
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wartywhoa23 • today at 9:57 AM
Software raidership?
fulafel • today at 12:22 PM
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fragmede • today at 8:34 AM
Because Rust is what's cool these days. Don't you wanna be cool? Also Rust has memory safety things that C++ doesn't have, so there's a class of bugs that can't happen in the Rust version. That doesn't mean the Rust version is 100% bug free, but just that it's not vulnerable to that class of bugs. So it's a good thing for security reasons if you're running a database server somewhere that attackers could get at it. There might be performance benefits down the road if they choose to focus on that.
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I think a business case for a "look I let an LLM rewrite a large codebase" does not exist.