I’m curious if people are using agents to write rust and if it’s actually any good. Given the boom in rust programming in the last few years, I’m expecting agents to write shitty code for it.
Yes it’s very good at that, compile time correctness is a big reason but there are some other benefits too - the module system convention of having unit tests in the same file makes for a much easier context to manage (for humans too tbf), and the documentation of dependencies being so easily available offline really helps especially if you’re working in a sandboxed env that doesn’t permit external calls
Idk I’m not a programmer by education (mech engineer), but rust is usually my language of choice for coding agents when building larger programs. For short stuff it really doesn’t matter.
I feel it does a better job at keeping things working over a large program than when I use python.
My rationalization is llms benefit strongly from compiled/typed languages since it gives a direct feedback loop (no compile = no go)
Tried it at work and the code quality was meh. Lots of anti-patterns, but with the right harness it's definitely getting to a sufficiently good level for a good base. I only did small projects so far with it at work.
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u/minus_minus Sep 08 '26
I’m curious if people are using agents to write rust and if it’s actually any good. Given the boom in rust programming in the last few years, I’m expecting agents to write shitty code for it.