alt Hacker NewsIt's very good (in our experience, YMMV of course) when/llm write prototype with python and then port automatically 1-1 to Rust for perf. We write prototypes in JS and Python and then it gets auto ported to Rust and we have been doing this for about 1 year for all our projects where it makes sense; in the past months it has been incredibly good with claude code; it is absolutely automatic; we run it in a loop until all (many handwritten in the original language) tests succeed.
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abrookewood • today at 1:52 AM
Why not get it to write it in Rust in the first place?
IDK what's going on in your shop but that sounds like a terrible idea!
- Libraries don't necessarily map one-to-one from Python to Rust/etc.
- Paradigms don't map neatly; Python is OO, Rust leans more towards FP.
- Even if the code be re-written in Rust, it's probably not the most Rustic (?) approach or the most performant.