[dchuk]

Given they heavily used LLMs for this optimization, makes you wonder why they didn’t use them to just port the C library to rust entirely. I think the volume of library ports to more languages/the most performant languages is going to explode, especially given it’s a relatively deterministic effort so long as you have good tests and api contracts, etc

[cfors]

The underlying C library interacts directly with the postgres query parser (therefore, Postgres source). So unless you rewrite postgres in Rust, you wouldn't be able to do that.

[vineyardmike]

Well then why didn’t they just get the LLM to rewrite all of Postgres too /s

I agree that LLMs will make clients/interfaces in every language combination much more common, but I wonder the impact it’ll have on these big software projects if more people stop learning C.