alt Hacker NewsBut what is the purpose? When you rewrite a project in another language, it's for engineers to be able to maintain and further develop the project better on some metrics due to advantages of the language. It doesn't hold when LLM does the rewrite, since there is no one who understands the code after that.
It's a good demonstration of capabilities, sure, but the result itself makes no sense. We'll have to figure out where these capabilities can bring real advantage
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gamegod • yesterday at 10:47 PM
This is such an insightful comment. It also underscores why these AI companies' marketing efforts are promoting rewrites.
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cdelsolar • yesterday at 11:52 PM
why do you think no one understands the code after the LLM rewrites it?
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> When you rewrite a project in another language, it's for engineers to be able to maintain and further develop the project better
I don't think that is the case here. Bun is pretty much using AI to write all of it's code, with a human reviewing it. Zig exists as a language to provide a nice DX over C and Rust, not to be memory safe. If you are using an LLM to generate code, the DX benefits are removed and so then why would you ever choose Zig over Rust?