alt Hacker NewsI could see Rust becoming the language for coding agents, because it has such solid guardrails built in. I could also see it slipping into obscurity as LLMs get faster and compile times become a more and more obvious bottleneck on iteration speeds.
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dabinat • today at 8:20 PM
Compile times are being worked on: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2026/roadmap-...
ReactiveJelly • today at 5:30 PM
Just run Rust compiles in the cloud.
Really, if you're using a SaaSS LLM like Claude or Copilot or ChatGPT, which already sends all your code to someone else's computer to run on a beefy GPU, they should just send the Rust code to the same datacenter and send you back a binary.
Little shocked that Anthropic isn't offering this.
Rust compile speeds will matter less and less as hardware gets faster.
> I could also see it slipping into obscurity as LLMs get faster and compile times become a more and more obvious bottleneck on iteration speeds.
I’ve worked on some very large Rust projects. The incremental compile times are nowhere near the same order of magnitude of a bottleneck as an LLM turn.