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Comment by geodel

2 days ago

Well, Rust is great for Fearless AI-driven development.

Do you have any substantial sound metrics and study? I can think of many ways for a Rust program to not remove all fears that it will not do what I intended, doubly so for a vibe-coded Rust program.

  • You‘ll notice a lot of "I found"s and "my hunch"s and similar in the comments.

    There aren’t many comparative benchmarks, and obviously the design of such a benchmark is difficult, but, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09101

    In this benchmark, models can correctly solve Rust problems 61% on first pass — A far cry from other languages such as C# (88%) or Elixir (97%, no static typing whatsoever).

    • First pass is not that important today. All coding agents run until they get it right or hit a limit.

      Having to tweak code and compile more often makes things slower, but strict compilers also help you find bugs faster and navigate the codebase. I think the two effects balance out and leave you with safer code in the end. And that's not counting the performance benefits of a compiled language.