alt Hacker NewsI do not think "good error messages" is an even trade for "fast compile times." What happens is the LLM catches the error, then may hit another error, and try again. This leads to more tokens and more latency, and then after all that you have a longer compile time.
With that said, I have not done an extensive amount of agentic development in Rust, so maybe I just don't have the reps to compare fairly.
It's less that the error messages are just "good" with Rust, it's that more stuff gets caught at comptime, and many of them can be autoremediated by cargo fix or the compiler itself says exactly what should be changed.
Nothing costs more tokens than an LLM trying to debug errors caused at runtime which doesn't map well to it's "intelligence" compared to what Rust provides