Rust Evangelist Furious When the Rewrite Was Done - With AI

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A four-panel NPC Wojak comic on a light blue background. Panel 1: a gray NPC face says 'rewrite it in Rust'. Panel 2: a cheerful white blob character happily replies 'I just did! with AI'. Panel 3: the gray NPC stares in blank silence. Panel 4: the same NPC face now has angry slanted eyebrows and a grim expression. The meme skewers the 'Rewrite It In Rust' evangelism colliding with AI-assisted coding: the demand was technically satisfied, but an LLM-generated Rust rewrite defeats the entire point - borrow-checker enlightenment earned through suffering - and likely produced code that compiles only after a thousand `.clone()` calls and `unsafe` blocks

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The point of rewriting it in Rust was never memory safety - it was the suffering. An AI doing it in an afternoon is like summiting Everest by helicopter

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The point of rewriting it in Rust was never memory safety - it was the suffering. An AI doing it in an afternoon is like summiting Everest by helicopter
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Ownership transferred successfully; authorship did not.
dev_meme 3mo

Interesting story to read through why they decided to move it all from zig
1. @Algoinde 3mo
  
  I don't see where it says in the PR that this is for Anthropic marketing purposes
@slopocalypse 3mo

average quality of Zig projects went up after this merge
@deimossos 3mo

Ladybird rewrote c++ in rust, and no one bats an eye. But when bun rewrites zig...
1. @b7sum 3mo
  
  everyone knows that hopes for ladybird are probably lost, it's just that js programmers are loud
2. @death_by_oom 3mo
  
  Ladybird is pre alfa afaik
3. @chupasaurus 3mo
  
  since C++ templates are Turing complete and that probably requires nofuckingwaysafe keyword in Rust.
  
  @feedable 3mo
  
  ✌️😭🥀
  
  @tema3210 3mo
  
  Bro, you literally can oom system with clever generic expansion in rust....
4. @ibagrintsev 3mo
  
  Weren’t they going to rewrite it in Swift a year ago, because Swift “better suits web” than Rust or something
  
  @deimossos 3mo
  
  The tooling on swift was ass
@agonyship 3mo

What's the point here?
1. @deimossos 3mo
  
  purity ig