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Comment by jes5199

2 days ago

I tried that, but the Rust build process was too painful, and agents seemed to burn a lot of tokens guessing how to get the code to compile. I rewrote my project in Elixir and it’s been going much more smoothly

Elixir is great, and I have recently started using it myself, but its not a substitute for Rust. Try writing device driver in Elixir, or anything CPU intensive.

  • I’m building a heavily parallel dataflow system. I thought Rust might be good for concurrency.

  • GP said nothing of what they were building. Seems pretty probable it was a web service/application rather than a device driver.

    • That is my point. It might be better for some use cases, but those are very different from the ones Rust is best.