Rust's Downfall: From Rising Star to Rejected by Major Projects (2025)

Post by sgt » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 2:50 PM UTC

Post by wookmaster » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 3:29 PM UTC

eimrine wrote: post #3

sgt wrote: post #2

Might it see a popularity burst though, due to Rust's inherent advantage in AI augmented development? Being more deterministic makes it easier for LLM's to produce working code in it.

There is not such an advancement, Rust is made for dealing with human's mistakes. Chatbots can stop having such a mistakes and generate more terse formal specs instead.

Post by goku12 » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

Post by eimrine » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 5:50 PM UTC

goku12 wrote: post #7

eimrine wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The question by @wookmaster isn't just valid, if we're to follow your argument, chatbots may as well skip C and write directly in assembly or machine code for maximum efficiency! You seem to put too much faith in chatbots that you forget that correcting AI mistakes in code is a major job now. Even the best coders use AI to only fill in obvious code, not to think on their behalf.

Post by goku12 » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 12:54 PM UTC

wookmaster wrote: post #9

eimrine wrote: post #5

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Saying chatbots trained on human code won’t have human errors feels off is all