alt Hacker NewsI wonder how is the experience writing Rust or Zig with LLMs. I suspect zig might not have enough training data and rust might struggle with compile times and extra context required for borrow checker.
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> I wonder how is the experience writing Rust or Zig with LLMs
I've had no issues with Rust, mostly (99% of the time) using codex with gpt-5.2 xhigh and does as well as any other language. Not sure why you think compile times would be an issue, the LLM doesn't really care if it takes 1 minute or 1 hour to compile, it's more of a "your hardware + project" issue than about the LLMs. Also haven't found it to struggle with borrow checker, if it screw up it sees the compilation errors, fixes it, just like with any other languages I've tried to use with LLMs.
I found Opus 4.6 to be good at Zig.
I got it to write me an rsync like CLI for copying files to/from an Android device using MTP, all in a single ~45 min sitting. It works incredibly well. OpenMTP was the only other free option on macOS. After being frustrated by it, I decided to try out Opus 4.6 and was pleasantly surprised.
I later discovered that I could plug in a USB-C hard drive directly into the phone, but the program was nonetheless very useful.