Think about your question, depending on the tool, Rust might not be needed, is high level memory performance and safety needed in a coding agent ? Probably not.
It's high speed iteration of release ? Might be needed, Interpreted or JIT compiled ? might be needed.
Without knowing all the requirements its just your workspace preference making your decision and not objectively the right tool for the job.
While not directly related to GP, I would guess that a codebase developped with a coding agent (I assume Claude code is used to work on itself) would benefit from a stricter type system (one important point of Rust)
Yes, but if you put type strictness on a line, Rust would be further along I think.
Not to say that Typescript is bad or anything, but I would like to see data on my gut feeling that "stricter languages would make coding agents work better"
This is actually a curious one, I think you might have that gut feeling towards the compiler/transpiler ?
> Yes, but if you put type strictness on a line, Rust would be further along I think.
There are huge differences between build times, as we know, Rust likes to compile with effort, by design, it's important for the compiler to navigate all the nuances. Typescript with bun for example, can run a bit faster. Is the compiler making you think it's more 'type safe' ?
