Comment by raincole
20 hours ago
Yet, neither ChatGPT desktop app nor Claude Code CLI is native. Mind you these are made by companies with practically infinite tokens.
20 hours ago
Yet, neither ChatGPT desktop app nor Claude Code CLI is native. Mind you these are made by companies with practically infinite tokens.
These apps predated LLMs "getting good".
Both have an enormous number of paying customers and you don't just disrupt that for a language change.
Anthropic literally rewrote the whole runtime CC is based on in another language. And even then they still not dared to migrate it away from React.
Zig -> Rust is straightforward and is a good advertisement for their model.
React -> Rust is ambitious and the models aren't there yet.
Soon.