Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust • Hacker News Board

Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 18, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC

hnlmorg wrote: post #278

tcfhgj wrote: post #264

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> so much 1) the agent is probably not the only thing running on the system, so more is just worse generally 2) I am fine if a developer needs Rust or similar to write a resource efficient app. I wonder what the developer could achieve when he put the optimization effort into the Rust app instead.

My point is that Java isn’t going to be the application that sends your machine into swap hell. People are so narrow minded about programming on this forum. They talk as if only Rust fills the void between unsafe C and node.js behemoths. But the reality is there are a plethora of other good languages out there too.

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Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

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Post by jxmesth » Tue, May 19, 2026, 11:36 AM UTC

inhumantsar wrote: post #107

slopinthebag wrote: post #56

I love these. Coding agents aren't very difficult to build, it's a TUI + tools + getting a nice agent loop working. The hardest part seems to be supporting all of the different providers and model quirks. What is interesting is seeing the experimentation: some provide tons of tools, others provide a single python interpreter and have the agent use tools via sandboxed python scripts, others use minimal tools and lean…

I'm working on one right now where nearly everything can be expressed as a combination of workflows. There will be some built-in agent types out of the box but all the Lego pieces are there if you want to put together something different.

I'd love to test this out when it's ready : )

Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

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Post by kcarriedo » Tue, May 19, 2026, 1:20 PM UTC

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Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

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Post by BillStrong » Wed, May 27, 2026, 12:55 PM UTC

brabel wrote: post #202

BillStrong wrote: post #61

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Have you thought about Zig? If you limit it to CompTime, isn't that just a scripting language that happens to be compiled to binary?

That’s not how it works. Comptime Zig is Zig, not an embedded scripting language. You can’t run comptime code separately, it only runs as part of compiling a Zig program. Think of it like Rust macros.

Yes and no. It is just Zig, but that is the advantage. And compiling it to an special function that could work as an end seems to be a doable thing, so you would just have to have the compiler in your agent.