Thinking Systems

Many of those recent reimplementions and rewrites were done in Rust. However, to understand the implicit tradeoffs of this choice, an ablation study should be performed to see if/how faster and better the agent would do the same using the C language.

Go, TypeScript and Rust may be the only languages I need until the end of my life. And a tiny bit of bash.

Thanks to the new touch displays in modern laptops we can finally work slower and make more errors while working <3

I personally have hard time believing we live in a timeline where foundation models are finding security bugs left and right in existing C and C++ code, yet people complain Rust is “slow to compile” and think C++ is the answer.

A nice way to format SQL statements is to center them, with keywords on the left and expressions/identifiers on the right. Any IDE that does that?

Someone please rewrite the rust compiler in assembler. The compile times are killing me.

I don't read code to make the code better. I read code to make myself better. I understand the system better by reading the code, which makes me better at creating new code.

Was curious about Ruby vs Rust here. teapawt.net/dhh/status/21046344257…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Rust is a *really* bad idea for any software you need to have working a few years from now (AI generated or not), or want to continue developing into the future. Not because Rust is ugly (which… it is). And not because Rust is, overwhelmingly, a cult (again… it is). But simply because Rust is still a moving target. The language is not yet “complete”… and neither is the compiler. Changes occur often enough (and in significant enough ways) to throw serious monkey wrenches into any sizable project. Once Rust stabilizes (which could happen quickly if the Cult of Rust actually wanted it to), this problem will quickly go away. Until then I will be sticking with C. Or C++. Or, heck, any language that is more stable than Rust.

It’s true: you can’t write Rust in an OOP fashion. Return to procedural with some functional thrown in. It takes time to adjust but it’s better. OOP’s historical strengths are weaknesses these days

Anyone want to tell him the screen saver could be even faster if it was just a blank screen? It is a shame that so much software is wasteful these days, but seem weird to focus on optimising a tool designed to run when the computer isn't being used.

I'm ready to be wrong on this, but the idea that assembly is, or ever will be, a good language for agents feels ridiculous. It forces the agent to attend to a huge number of extra details. Same problem as with humans! Why spend limited attention and context on that?

I might be the only person in the world that likes looking at Rust code. I think it's super pretty.

How many weeks into a project undelivered can I go before rewriting in Rust?

Come on @dhh. I know Rust is no Ruby, but the ugliest language ever created? There has to be uglier.

Rust is good because it catches bug early Rust is bad because it catches bug early

Rust 最迫切需要解决的问题是 `target` 目录磁盘占用问题。 很多项目居然能上 200G，令人发指。现在 AI 写东西太快，还并行多任务，多 worktree，现在 1T 的 MacBook Pro 也完全无法满足了。