alt Hacker NewsAt this point if you have a python codebase where perf is an issue, the "AI-pilled" answer is to rewrite it in a faster language.
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lemagedurage • today at 1:12 PM
It's already typical to call into a native library with Python bindings for performance critical work in Python. Even Pydantic's validation runs in Rust code.
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But I want to continue to understand the code. I dont know Rust (maybe AI can teach me?) and if I let Claude rewrite my current 50k LOC project in Rust, how can I understand what is happening and how can I work on it and think it further?