alt Hacker NewsThink about your question, depending on the tool, Rust might not be needed, is high level memory performance and safety needed in a coding agent ? Probably not.
It's high speed iteration of release ? Might be needed, Interpreted or JIT compiled ? might be needed.
Without knowing all the requirements its just your workspace preference making your decision and not objectively the right tool for the job.
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LelouBil • yesterday at 2:02 PM
While not directly related to GP, I would guess that a codebase developped with a coding agent (I assume Claude code is used to work on itself) would benefit from a stricter type system (one important point of Rust)
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I have a 16GB RAM laptop. It's a beast I bought in 2022.
It's all I need for my work.
RAM on this machine can't be upgraded. No issue when running a few Codex instances.
Claude: forget it.
That's why something like Rust makes a lot of sense.
Even more now, as RAM prices are becoming a concern.