On the one hand, I love Rust, love seeing Rust winning, on the other hand: the cynical part of me observes this as a way for them to say it's safer to use, somehow. In the sense that people fling Rust around in a kind of showey way.

Already we've been seeing projects fuck up with isolation irt MCP servers, so this is the backdrop to observe this kind of change.

I know this is blasphemy, but why not Go? Why Rust? I love writing Rust CLIs, but somehow I feel the personal arguments I make for such things don't really hold up in industrial settings like this (in particular, a small open-source CLI project that interacts with networking).

There's nothing wrong with using Rust here (Rust is great for business logic!), but the choice here almost makes me suspicious of the motivations.

Also there's existing Rust solutions in this area! Namely: https://github.com/sigoden/aichat

I don't really enjoy using AI when coding, but aspirationally, I'd rather support other projects than OpenAI, who is only a nonprofit in concept and is actively attempting to become a for-profit, whilst behaving like a VC funded startup.

(Not to mention the fact that mainline models are explicitly developed with the intention of destroying labor, in general)

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

this as a way for them to say it’s safer to use, somehow.

And it probably is, because they use a lot of Ai for code generation too. And having Rust is a bit safer I assume, because its way stricter and the error message also way more helpful. Having not programmed in TypeScript, this is just an assumption and I just realized it gives you even right here. Oh the irony. :D

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty much. Rust is very strict and explicit about everything, while typescript lets you kinda jam things together in ways that are very convenient but harder to keep track of in your head.

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