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I suspect "Rust is fast/low memory utilization" is the more common value proposition, with memory safety as the bonus that can push it over other fast languages.

Related: If AI writes your code, why use Python? (which notes why Rust has taken off for LLMs) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100433

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Zig is every bit as fast with typically even lower memory footprint as Rust. The main thing Rust promises that Zig cannot already do natively is memory safety. This is not about Python vs Rust. It is one systems language vs another.

This Rust rewrite instance is explicitly about memory safety by admission of the devs; I was just commenting on the trend.

Notably the rewrite managed to also both reduce binary size and reduce compile time. Given it's largely a straight non idiomatic migration, that's surprising to me.

-9MB on Win/Linux and unchanged on Mac. It wasn't a 100% pure idiomatic migration there was some cleanup done.

I would imagine that the strong type system would also help steer AIs to ensure that code is written correctly. The compiler supplies backpressure to the agent that steers it toward a more correct program.

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