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system2 | 6 days ago

Why am I hearing about Rust a lot these days? Did anything significant happen?

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Jaxan|6 days ago

What do you mean by “these days”? To me, it seems like rust is a pretty constant factor on HN for at least two years now.

oconnor663|6 days ago

It feels to me like Rust has been pretty big on HN ever since the 1.0 release in 2015...

iFire|6 days ago

Most of the platforms were successfully petitioned to have rust sdk mandatory added so that rust code can be added to the platforms. The previously situation was rust was not allowed because the external dependency of the rust sdk was blocked.

Note that the rust having no stable api is not fixed, so I think there's a bunch of internal systems on each platform to hard lock the rust dependencies across multiple rust users.

There's some friction between platform packagers and the code that the author wrote exactly as it was written.

weaksauce|6 days ago

there has been a few adopters of rust... linux formally choosing it for some of their systems being the most notable recently(maybe a few months ago).

canadiantim|6 days ago

AI has made it exceptionally easy to program with.

I've switched to using Rust from Python simply because of AI development

Sytten|5 days ago

From my experience at our startup, AI is still pretty shit at Rust. It largely fails to understanding lifetime, Pin, async, etc. Basically anything moderately complex. It hallucinates a lot more in general than JS for comparable codebase size (in the 250k lines range).

bitwize|6 days ago

Indeed. With AI lifting legacy code bases into Rust got a whole lot easier, and purging the blight of C from the world, excepting the most deeply embedded of applications, got a whole lot closer.

system2|6 days ago

Really? You think AI writes better Rust than Python? Can you give me some examples? I strictly code Django, and Claude Code is really good at following my lead with it.