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Comment by queoahfh | Hacker News Reader

I am concerned about the quality. Even a cursory skim of the code makes the code appear asinine. Unless the genius aspects of the code elude me.

https://github.com/malisper/pgrust/blob/3646a73515a5e4ac7d0b...

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This is a (slightly more typesafe) transliteration of the C code.

https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/2e6578292a9184dcaa...

Yeah same. The structure makes no real sense and when digging into the code it reads like I'm the first human to look at it.

That's how Ai generated code is. I am almost convinced that Models are intentionally taught to write obtuse code because AI companies don't want us to write code at all

I'm too young but I imagine assembly programmers were feeling the same when automatic code generation by compilers took over. Very weird.

More that I got confused by the C function returning bool, not as an error value, but as a result, which is my fault for skimming it quickly.

I have taken a closer look at the code, and it seems superficially a somewhat faithful rewrite, not quite idiomatic Rust, but closer than I anticipated at first. I know there are non-LLM rewriting tools for C to Rust, and with a test suite to help, a rewrite to Rust might be greatly helped. The new Rust code does have some drawbacks in some ways, and there are topics I am curious about.

I guess there also were macro-assemblers before C, so it was a bit more natural.

Wow, I would love to read an interview series based on this!!

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