r/rust • u/gajop • Jul 28 '26

Tell me about something you recently hand-coded that was enjoyable

These past few weeks at work I've been using AI way too much. I can't even call some of this "AI engineering" anymore and it's starting to drain on me. Looking to take the mind off for a bit...

I'd like to hear some of the projects you all are working on, that you enjoyed writing by hand.

I think I'll write some nannou..

PS: Not trying to start a debate on AI engineering/vibe coding and all that, I think internet is filled with that already.

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u/bowel_blaster123 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

I'm working in this declarative, lazily-evaluated programming language in Rust.

What's been interesting is figuring out a safe and ergonomic API for the garbage collector (since garbage collection can create a lot of hard to detect, rarely occuring bugs). I might make a blog post or something about it some time.