@base58ed

Correct, Efficient, Elegant. https://xitter.cf/t.co/HrmaCuP5m0

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And keeping it lowercase as well 🙂
Franck Pachot@FranckPachotOct 14
A nice way to format SQL statements is to center them, with keywords on the left and expressions/identifiers on the right. Any IDE that does that?
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🤣🤣🤣
Armin Ronacher ⇌
@mitsuhikoOct 7
Someone please rewrite the rust compiler in assembler. The compile times are killing me.
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This! Exactly the need to read in the times when AI agents can code increasingly faster and consistently better.
Charles Oliver Nutter@headiusOct 3
I don't read code to make the code better. I read code to make myself better. I understand the system better by reading the code, which makes me better at creating new code.
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Dear @claudeai @ClaudeDevs Being able to pick the UI and text font is a fundamental right of every engineer. I'm trying hard to use Claude Code Desktop and this is the only hindrance so far. Make it happen please. Codex has done it so well I can't praise them enough.
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Are you saying Rust is more readable than Ruby or this guy is a dimwit or both? 😉
Armin Ronacher ⇌
@mitsuhikoSep 30
Was curious about Ruby vs Rust here. xitter.cf/dhh/status/21046344257…
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If Rust stops evolving and keeping up it'll lose relevance. I think it's growing great and the toolchain supports easier migration path. It's not a hippie cult anymore since there's a foundation and mature orgs adopting. So yeah, use Rust and enjoy building great software.
The Lunduke Journal
@LundukeJournalSep 28
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Rust is a *really* bad idea for any software you need to have working a few years from now (AI generated or not), or want to continue developing into the future. Not because Rust is ugly (which… it is). And not because Rust is, overwhelmingly, a cult (again… it is). But simply because Rust is still a moving target. The language is not yet “complete”… and neither is the compiler. Changes occur often enough (and in significant enough ways) to throw serious monkey wrenches into any sizable project. Once Rust stabilizes (which could happen quickly if the Cult of Rust actually wanted it to), this problem will quickly go away. Until then I will be sticking with C. Or C++. Or, heck, any language that is more stable than Rust.
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I happen to think it’s good. Because on the contrary, if you stick to simple algebraic data types and pattern matching, rust code tends to be quite readable and pleasant.
Steve Klabnik
@steveklabnikSep 28
It’s true: you can’t write Rust in an OOP fashion. Return to procedural with some functional thrown in. It takes time to adjust but it’s better. OOP’s historical strengths are weaknesses these days
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Irony on irony, he doesn’t seem to have tried any optimizations at all. Just a figment of thought, a probabilistic outcome from the LLM and bang the twitter mob.
John Crickett
@johncrickettSep 27
Anyone want to tell him the screen saver could be even faster if it was just a blank screen? It is a shame that so much software is wasteful these days, but seem weird to focus on optimising a tool designed to run when the computer isn't being used.
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The agentic AI DevX includes all kind of tooling from compilers, linters to formatters and so on. Rust is successful there due to zero/low overhead abstractions. If you can 17x Rust with asm, you either didn't optimize Rust at all or tooling fell short (so file a ticket).
Gary Bernhardt@garybernhardtSep 26
I'm ready to be wrong on this, but the idea that assembly is, or ever will be, a good language for agents feels ridiculous. It forces the agent to attend to a huge number of extra details. Same problem as with humans! Why spend limited attention and context on that?
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You’re not alone bro 😀 I absolutely love it.
Armin Ronacher ⇌
@mitsuhikoSep 24
I might be the only person in the world that likes looking at Rust code. I think it's super pretty.
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Eduardo
@hackerdoccSep 24
i don't get the opinions that rust reads terrible. i think it's quite neat
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None if you start with Rust 😉 So save yourself some time.
ThePrimeagen
@ThePrimeagenSep 23
How many weeks into a project undelivered can I go before rewriting in Rust?
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Remember: “Invert, always invert”. Ask them what’s exactly ugly there and how so. You’ll see mostly illogical and inconsistent answers 😉
Carl Lerche
@carllercheSep 23
Come on @dhh. I know Rust is no Ruby, but the ugliest language ever created? There has to be uglier.
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It’s like the Trojan horse. A story as a gift that keeps giving 😀
Tim McNamara
@timClicksSep 19
Rust is good because it catches bug early Rust is bad because it catches bug early
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That and build times.
Jason Lee
@huacnleeSep 17
Rust 最迫切需要解决的问题是 `target` 目录磁盘占用问题。 很多项目居然能上 200G，令人发指。现在 AI 写东西太快，还并行多任务，多 worktree，现在 1T 的 MacBook Pro 也完全无法满足了。
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Thinking Systems retweeted
Andrea
@acolombiadevSep 17
Rust is eating the world and Copilot brought a fork 🦀 @github used Copilot to rewrite Copilot’s agent runtime in Rust. 800K+ lines, 128 PRs, shipped incrementally. Existing end-to-end tests ran against the new code at every step. github.blog/ai-and-ml/genera…

Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot

A rewrite this size wasn't affordable before agents. Here's what porting the Copilot agent runtime to 800,000 lines of production Rust actually took.

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NVIDIA HPC Developer
@NVIDIAHPCDevSep 16
Introducing CUDA Rust! CUDA Rust lets you write GPU kernels natively in Rust, not just launch them from it. Two paths: cuda-oxide for SIMT kernels compiled to PTX, and cutile-rs for Tile-based programming on stable Rust. Both can catch aliasing errors at compile time. Technical blog: nvda.ws/4hm1bHS
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I always miss this particular keyboard. It was just right.
⭕ Brock Pierson
@brockpiersonSep 14
This is the greatest keyboard ever
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🤣🤣🤣
Doug Colkitt
@0xdougSep 14
Agentic coding in 2026
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AI tools and models elevate everyone in different capacity. The increasingly impactful usage comes when you're a better engineer yourself. Vibe coding or leaving it fully to AI tools can be damaging to large and meaningful codebases and doesn't grow you as an engineer either.
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