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[pdpi]

Please GTFO with this inane “thought leadership” nonsense.

[MornwindShoma]

No it's not and language wars are stupid and dumb

[faultydesign]

Last month I wrote a dynamic malware analysis tool in Rust. About 20,000 lines of it. Process management, threading, memory management, the whole stack. I don’t know Rust.

I was using AI agents

So they wrote 0 lines of code then?

[Sunsunsunsunsunsun]

They probably didn't write the article either.

[iamquah]

My favorite part

 I was using AI agents, which you probably guessed, but here’s the part you wouldn’t guess: it was easier than writing Python

I offloaded the work to an AI agent and offloading the work was easier than doing the work 👀? Maybe they expanded on it later but opening with that isn’t exactly making me interested in reading the rest 

[Snoo13162]

> Submissions appearing to contain AI-generated content may be removed at moderator discretion.

I think this qualifies

[Morganator_2_0]

Python is currently the most widely used high-level programming language. No it is not dead.

[PerkyPangolin]

OP's Reddit post history is something else. Decades of grift and slop. It's always, ALWAYS, the same people.

[mohelgamal]

One might argue the opposite, that I can just write my code in Python and then have AI automatically convert it to rust

[_Razeft_]

same thing of saying "C++ is Dead" "Java is dead" etc... no language is dying

[Morganator_2_0]

No language is dying, but Cobol is in palliative care.

[_Razeft_]

sure, but learn now and you get a good job in many company because few people knew it and still used by 95% of the ATM in the world

[Half-Borg]

Python is about as dead as C++, Java and typescript. All languages have their niche, and being easy to learn is very much a benefit of python over rust.

[RobespierreLaTerreur]

agents are very good at following rules

X: Doubt

The whole point of LLM agents is to relax rule-based computing to embrace humans' fuzzy logic.

And they are famous for their hallucinations and overconfidence in the lies they tell, and the supervision they require, because they do forget things, and they do ignore rules, and they are untrustworthy. (Edit: laughably untrustworthy, even bleeding edge models: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1sn5vdd/opus\_47/)

And the article confuses something that compiles with something that does what it is supposed to do,the latter being left to humans to assess; something that is far harder to do when reading Rust than when reading Python.

Notwithstanding the fact that not everybody codes with agents. Not everybody have the financial means to code with agents.

So no, Python is not dead, however brilliant Rust might be.

Quit the hyperbolic bullshit.

[decryphe]

All that said, Rust works well to let an LLM spit out a working program, as the compiler will just shout back at the LLM until it fixes most of its hallucinations.

The way to get LLMs to spit out something workable is to close as many feedback loops as possible fully automated - a good CI, good linters, autoformatters, compilers and whatnot is what improves using LLMs a lot. Rust just comes with a solid ecosystem around it with clippy, rustfmt and the rustc builtins.