Comment by vinhnx
14 hours ago
This came as a big surprise to me last year. I remember they announced that Codex CLI is opensource, and the codex-rs [0] from TypeScript to Rust, with the entire CLI now open source. This is a big deal and very useful for anyone wanting to learn how coding agents work, especially coming from a major lab like OpenAI. I've also contributed some improvements to their CLI a while ago and have been following their releases and PRs to broaden my knowledge.
I know very little about typescript and even less about rust. Am I getting the rust version of codex when I do `npm i -g @openai/codex`?
A stand alone rust binary would be nicer than installing node.
yes [0]
> The Rust implementation is now the maintained Codex CLI and serves as the default experience
[0] https://github.com/openai/codex/tree/main/codex-rs#whats-new...
They should switch to a native installer then. Quite confusing