alt Hacker NewsNo reason, unless the project is simple. The more you can offload onto your compiler/typer - the shorter is the feedback loop, the better agents work.
Lack of strictly enforced static typing make agents fail much sooner with Python. In my opinion, Rust and Scala are the best targets for agentic flows - and, coincidentally, they have the most advanced typers among mainstream languages.
But any statically typed language behaves better than any dynamically/duck typed language. When I say "better" I mean delivery time and the amount of shipped defects.
Another thing which helps (but not generally applicable) - ask your agent to verify critical protocols with formal proof in TLA+/lean/coq. Agents are bad at formal proofs - but generally are much better than most of the humans.
Rust is a fantastic language to emit from AI.
Studies report that the language design tends to result in lower defect code (vs peers such as Go and Java) due to how the syntax aids error handling, logic flow, and API design.
You don't need to know Rust to begin using it. You'll learn it quickly enough.
The code is easy to read, and Serde makes parsing, especially JSON, extremely pleasant. Writing HTTP services is a breeze.
AI makes Rust development go 10x faster. The borrow checker isn't even an issue. It's invisible now. You almost never hit it anyway when you write web services, but now it's no issue at all when writing highly concurrent code too. Claude etc. emit the correct code and lifetimes, and it's entirely ergonomic and idiomatic.
The biggest problem with Rust is the compile time.