On the one hand, I love Rust, love seeing Rust winning, on the other hand: the cynical part of me observes this as a way for them to say it’s safer to use, somehow. In the sense that people fling Rust around in a kind of showey way.
Already we’ve been seeing projects fuck up with isolation irt MCP servers, so this is the backdrop to observe this kind of change.
I know this is blasphemy, but why not Go? Why Rust? I love writing Rust CLIs, but somehow I feel the personal arguments I make for such things don’t really hold up in industrial settings like this (in particular, a small open-source CLI project that interacts with networking).
There’s nothing wrong with using Rust here (Rust is great for business logic!), but the choice here almost makes me suspicious of the motivations.
Also there’s existing Rust solutions in this area! Namely: https://github.com/sigoden/aichat
I don’t really enjoy using AI when coding, but aspirationally, I’d rather support other projects than OpenAI, who is only a nonprofit in concept and is actively attempting to become a for-profit, whilst behaving like a VC funded startup.
(Not to mention the fact that mainline models are explicitly developed with the intention of destroying labor, in general)
Go is a simpler-to-read language that does not involve lifetimes (as you know, it is GC’d). For a lot of smaller projects like this, the boringness of Go is preferred. Less mental bandwidth required.
I’ll admit my definition of “industrial” here was vague, but I think you can get my point. I’m not trying to say that Rust isn’t good in a business setting - my job also has Rust in the code!
However, for these purposes, most of the benefits of Rust in this situation are already provided by Go.