Could we finally put the whole "written in pure Rust" thing as if it is a certificate of quality to rest? You can write crap in Rust, you can write excellent software in Rust, and both goes for all other languages too. I don't care what language you used for a project from the quality POV. Slop is slop, no matter Rust or JS or C.
Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
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Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#172There is also https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust I vibed a comparison/review of these two systems using my llm wiki: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/work/pi-agent-zerostack-co... (the prompt is in https://zby.github.io/commonplace/work/pi-agent-zerostack-co... )
Your bot seems to think that `pi_agent_rust` is the same as upstream Pi.
I think I fixed this in a later revision. Does that persist?
Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#173I understand the need for memory footprint in some situations, but what's the point of seeking performance for a software that mostly calls LLMs and waits?
Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#174I wonder how this compares to tau https://tau-agent.dev/ ?
Both are in Rust and both mention Unix in their descriptions.
Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#175I wonder how this compares to tau https://tau-agent.dev/ ? Both are in Rust and both mention Unix in their descriptions.
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Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#176Now make it into an IntelliJ plugin which has proper access to the search index. I’ll pay for it. For Christs sake it’s insane JetBrains hasn’t figured this out yet
I am currently deciding on adding ACP support or not (and ACP support should allow connections to JetBrains's IDEs)
Yes please.
TUIs are cool but sometimes people prefer staying in the IDE
Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#177"RAM footprint: ~8MB on an empty session, ~12MB when working" I like this, Claude Code is using multiple gigabytes, which is really annoying on lowend laptops
I'm building an agent framework in golang and it is extremely light weight. Startup time is under 1/2 second, and RAM usage is really low. I have a 12 year old laptop and it happily runs without slowing down. There's no reason what is essentially a string concat engine should be slow on any hardware, including old hardware.
Sounds interesting, would you like to share any more information about your project?
Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#178woo hoo, more ai slop...
Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#179"RAM footprint: ~8MB on an empty session, ~12MB when working" I like this, Claude Code is using multiple gigabytes, which is really annoying on lowend laptops
I have 29 Claude Codes open, using 6.3 GiB RSS total
Re: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
#180This is awesome! can't wait to see where it goes as it continues development
Always funny how Hacker News works with traction, posted about a rust based TUI agent I'm working on a couple days ago too :P