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

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

#81

Post by deagle50 » Sun, May 17, 2026, 3:55 AM UTC

Looks promising, is OpenAI subscription support planned?

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

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Post by hedgehog » Sun, May 17, 2026, 3:56 AM UTC

desireco42 wrote: post #77

c-hendricks wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't skills fairly easy to share, and can contain more than one file?

Prompts as well... he might be on to something here, can't say as I didn't try it yet Skills are just prompts

Most of mine have code in them. That's most of the value.

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

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Post by kirtivr » Sun, May 17, 2026, 4:02 AM UTC

usernametaken29 wrote: post #51

Now 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

Jetbrains does not have their own IDE-integrated coding agent?

What do Jetbrains users use then? Amp?

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

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Post by rvz » Sun, May 17, 2026, 4:04 AM UTC

iknowstuff wrote: post #8

hparadiz wrote: post #3

this is what I've been waiting for a low level language. please no more scripting language TUIs!

Isn’t codex in rust?

yes.

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

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Post by qsera » Sun, May 17, 2026, 4:07 AM UTC

inciampati wrote: post #37

> Integrated Ralph Wiggum loops: looping capabilities for long-horizon tasks Imo, this shouldn't be embedded in the executor layer. Orchestration should handle this.

Is AI is the new Waterfall/Agile methodology with all the lingo/terminology/names that make no damn sense?

Appears so, because I am so turned off by it...

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

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Post by joeyguerra » Sun, May 17, 2026, 4:19 AM UTC

the war of the coding agents has begun.

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

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Post by rvz » Sun, May 17, 2026, 4:23 AM UTC

As you can see, writing a coding agent in a compiled language makes a ton of sense and gives the benefits of running multiple agents efficiently instead of running into leaks and tools consuming gigabytes of RAM.

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

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Post by sarim » Sun, May 17, 2026, 4:25 AM UTC

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

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Post by mohsen1 » Sun, May 17, 2026, 4:30 AM UTC

This is much needed!

Compared to Codex CLI, Claude Code is insanely slow.

    $  time claude --version
    2.1.143 (Claude Code)

    ________________________________________________________

    Executed in    4.39 secs      fish           external
    usr time   29.68 millis    0.26 millis   29.41 millis
    sys time   71.30 millis    1.30 millis   70.00 millis

5 seconds to show me the version number!

I'm guessing Claude Code also needs a rewrite in Rust. But from what I saw in the leaked TypeScript code, a line-to-line port will be pretty bad. It requires a new architecture that matches Rust idioms

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

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Post by tencentshill » Sun, May 17, 2026, 4:33 AM UTC

This may be the most HN post I have ever seen.