Comment by metalloid
7 hours ago
It was true until LLMs arrive. Feature compilers + IDEs can be integrated with LLMs to help programmers.
Rust was a great idea, before LLMs, but I don't see the motivation for Rust when LLMs can be the solution initial for C/C++ 'problems'.
Relying on LLMs to code for you in no way solves the safety problem of C/C++ and probably worsens it.
Rust compiler checks things for you. People trust the Rust compiler because it enforces rules they want, so people don’t have to be in its place. Your suggestion is to be that checker to LLM-generated code. Back to square one.
On the contrary LLMs make using safe but constraining languages easier - you can just ask it how to do what you want in Rust, perhaps even by asking it to translate C-ish pseudocode.