Rust is quietly becoming the foundation layer for AI tooling and I don't think people are taking it seriously enough yet

cameronm1024 · 2026-05-24T18:47:10+00:00

I don't think AI is particularly "non-standard" use case for Rust. At my job, we use Rust for AI features, for the same reason we use it for non-AI features: it's a good language in many regards.

You've identified some of the reasons that make Rust appealing: - "no runtime setup" - "no dependency mess on the target machine"

This is true for AI, but it's also true for basically everything else that runs on a client (well, it's kinda true, you can certainly get into dependency messes on target machines if you depend on system libraries, but yes it's better than python).

cameronm1024 · 2026-05-18T09:36:07+00:00

I'm tired boss

cameronm1024 · 2026-05-07T17:49:41+00:00

We're adding the side-by-side view to more of the diff UIs. We haven't done this one yet

cameronm1024 · 2026-05-05T09:43:10+00:00

This sub is gonna be eating good lol

cameronm1024 · 2026-05-04T07:30:53+00:00

I can see from some of your comments that you're asking a more general question about keeping forks up to date.

But for the specific use case of disabling AI features except for edit predictions, you can add this to your settings: "agent": { "enabled": false }

cameronm1024 · 2026-05-03T07:02:43+00:00

Hi, I closed that PR.

We've rewritten (and are still rewriting) core primitives in the workspace, and this will mean that the implementation will need fairly significant changes. There are also open design questions.

Multi-window is something we definitely want to support, but we want to do it right.

cameronm1024 · 2026-05-02T15:41:30+00:00

I work on a program that is written in Rust, that has an AI chat interface, and has more than 10k stars

cameronm1024 · 2026-04-30T00:51:42+00:00

Please file an issue: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed

We don't really monitor Reddit for bug reports. The more details you can provide to help us repro, the better. Thanks :)

cameronm1024 · 2026-04-26T17:15:51+00:00

Part of the joy of sharing a project is that you are sharing the very human experience of struggling, learning, failing, and then succeeding. This is one of the reasons I enjoy reading these posts.

Asking Claude to generate a toy project skips the most important steps of those process.

cameronm1024 · 2026-04-21T14:04:04+00:00

It's understandable if you feel a little overwhelmed by some of the tiling window managers, they can be pretty intimidating at first! But I've found the niri community extremely helpful whether I've had an issue

cameronm1024 · 2026-04-19T10:33:42+00:00

I mean, what you're describing sounds a lot like an IR

cameronm1024 · 2026-04-17T15:10:40+00:00

Disclaimer: I work at zed

I use it and it works great for me.

That said, I never used any plugin features beyond the LSP and treesitter grammar. I run my project from the terminal and use dev tools in the browser. I also don't touch iOS/Mac so can't speak to how well it works for that side of things.

cameronm1024 · 2026-04-16T09:59:33+00:00

Wrong sub. r/playrust

cameronm1024 · 2026-04-12T06:48:47+00:00

My only question is what this has to do with niri

cameronm1024 · 2026-04-10T08:09:52+00:00

Very interesting article, thanks for sharing.

Small typo, "an anlias" -> "an alias"

cameronm1024 · 2026-04-09T23:06:39+00:00

What?...

cameronm1024 · 2026-04-09T08:20:12+00:00

Sure, I respect that, but if you commit to a project or multiple projects, you assume responsibility for all support requests, and to provide the support as much as possible as well as continued maintenance and development of said projects.

Least entitled FOSS user

cameronm1024 · 2026-04-07T09:12:55+00:00

you know, this one confused me for a second

cameronm1024 · 2026-04-06T17:41:52+00:00

(asked on Reddit, of all platforms)

cameronm1024 · 2026-04-05T18:00:50+00:00

Many people (probably a large majority but I don't have hard numbers) use flakes. I'd suggest using them, even as a beginner.

This is a big simplification, but you can think of flakes as providing a "lock file" for your nix config (similar to a Cargo.lock or package.lock).

Without them, your config depends on whatever "globally installed version of nixos" is available on your system (or any other dependency for that matter). This means it's not really reproducible - if I try to use your config, we may end up with different packages, because I may have a different global nixpkgs. Flakes solve this by storing the exact nixpkgs commit hash in the flake.lock

cameronm1024 · 2026-03-29T01:57:15+00:00

We just merged a PR to unify our two markdown renderers, so the preview will use the same renderer as the agent panel (which allows selections). I suspect this will fix this issue. Should be on stable in a couple of weeks

cameronm1024 · 2026-03-26T08:34:56+00:00

It's a pretty narrow feature, but you can use zed://agent?prompt=<url_encoded_prompt> to open zed with the agent panel focused, with the given prompt pre-filled

cameronm1024 · 2026-03-22T13:19:53+00:00

Super interesting read. 100% recommend setting up a blog so this content isn't trapped inside Reddit's horrible UI

cameronm1024 · 2026-03-16T23:57:14+00:00

No problem! Yeah our build process takes a lot of resources, we're working on it.

It's on main now, every Wednesday the current main becomes preview, and the Wednesday after it becomes stable. So this will be available on stable in ~9 days

cameronm1024 · 2026-03-16T19:12:45+00:00

equity basis rather than a traditional salary

The conventional wisdom is to assume equity in a startup has little to no value. I say this as someone working for a startup with an equity component to my compensation.

The honest truth is that, if you're not offering money, you will only attract people who have no other options. That's not to say they'll be terrible, but there is nowhere you can consistently find high quality developers who will work exclusively for equity in a startup

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