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Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust

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  1. lolakutty · · focus · HN ↗
    Why bother with rust when you can write it in C and ask an LLM to weed out the memory bugs?
    1. Georgelemental · · focus · HN ↗
      Why bother with asking an LLM to weed out the memory bugs when you can write it in Rust?
      1. lolakutty · · focus · HN ↗
        > when you can write it in Rust..

        Because fuck borrow checker..(and the horrible syntax)

        1. _flux · · focus · HN ↗
          So actually the answer to your question is that Rust provides excellent guardrails against memory safety issues, and in some cases, for code correctness as well, by allowing more behavior to be encoded in types. One of those guardrails is borrow checker.

          Thus, the agent needs to iterate less.

          1. lolakutty · · focus · HN ↗
            >Thus, the agent needs to iterate less.

            I mean, I didn't meant to run the LLM every compile cycle. May be just before a release or something..

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