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1. tazjin · 1790799051 · focus · HN ↗

   > Argon agents are working on migrating C/C++ codebases to Rust across Google

   Man, I remember back in the days when the cppnext team was refusing to even consider Rust, instead looking at absurd stuff like Carbon and Swift (!), even though half of the engineering staff already knew where this was headed. I hope they got a few good promos out of the delays at least.

   1. minimaxir · 1790800261 · focus · HN ↗

      A RewriteInRustBench would be unironically useful at this point since all the main agents can write it reasonably well despite its relative scarcity in the input data.

      1. LarsDu88 · 1790801217 · focus · HN ↗

         Rust is the best language for LLMs b/c it gives by far the best debug messages. Just tons of verifiable reward signal for post-training. Even the most rudimentary LLMs can school me on idiomatic Rust

         1. iillexial · 1790841714 · focus · HN ↗

            in my experience LLMs write pretty bad Rust code. sure it works, strong typing system, etc., but it's unmaintainable and not readable.

            1. konart · 1790845997 · focus · HN ↗

               I doubt these two features will be a defining quality of a product soon enough.

               Many pieces of software are going to be just blackboxes worked by AI. You will be maintaining output quality and stability and that's it.

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