Comment by rudedogg
20 hours ago
Zig has these modern language features too fwiw.
I think the goal was to do a massive rewrite for Anthropic (they acquired bun) and show that rewriting projects from lang -> lang with Claude can reduce security vulnerabilities to help with the hype for an IPO.
I don’t use/know Rust so I can’t comment on the quality, but there was a public security review that found issues with the new Rust code: https://x.com/SwivalAgent/status/2054468328119279923
This is an interesting experiment but I’m skeptical of any claims of success by Jarred/Anthropic due to the incentive to hype agents. There’s probably a trillion dollars at stake with the IPO. And Anthropic seems to be developing this part of their business with Mythos and the super review features.
But I’d like to see the same experiment done on a project without so much relying on the story being success.
There's a reasonable request to run the same analysis for the Zig version of the code as a comparison.
In lieu of that, it seems the Swivel devs ran an analysis on Tigerbeetle, one of the other major Zig projects, and found only 7 medium/low priority issues:
https://xcancel.com/SwivalAgent/status/2054063291266113994
To clarify, those are things an LLM considers to be issues, and LLMs can make mistakes.
Some of those are clear false positives, others I need to revisit tomorrow to say one way or another.