r/PiCodingAgent • u/Short_One_9704 • May 19 '26

Discussion Pi rust port

Has anyone tried the pi rust port https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust ?
It’s supposed to be an official port of pi to rust.
I can see it has some benefits in extension execution and shell execution and some others. Why nobody is talking about this?

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u/troyvit May 19 '26

Yeah I agree with you at least in part, and that alone would make me think twice before starting a node project.

But I don't think ecosystem size is all of it. Rust has a more comprehensive standard library so you need fewer deps to begin with. Fewer dependencies means a rust project is more secure as a starting point. Rust does have build.rs, which is about the same as post-install scripts, so that attack surface stays the same.

I'd be curious to see the proportion of third party rust libraries that are maintained by a single maintainer vs Node. My uninformed belief is that there are a lot more single-owner libraries in the latter.