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worrycuetoday at 12:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Rust may have a tremendous success in the future, because it's much easier to write it with AI (ignoring for a moment whether that's really a good thing).

It’s interesting that Rust could become the most deployed but the least written (by humans) programming language if the dreams of AI bros come true.

If AI gets good enough to competently translate other languages to Rust then there is no point writing in Rust (a language with a steep learning curve and is high friction in use), you can just write in a low friction language like C, C++, Odin, Zig, … etc. and have AI translate it to Rust catching all the memory bugs in the process.


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vlovich123today at 2:08 PM

C/C++ is low friction compared to Rust? Wow. We have very different experiences.

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moomoo11today at 2:06 PM

i’d rather have a run time than this way of working.