LLMs Make 'Hard' Languages Like Rust and Zig the New Normal
Fast and Hard Code
Armin Ronacher, a long-time Rust programmer, observes that LLMs have made language choice less consequential, leading developers to pick 'hard' languages like Rust and Zig for performance. He cites projects like Cloudflare's Artifacts (pure-Zig Git engine) and Vercel's fx (Zig coding agent) as examples, noting that even traditionally gatekept areas like crypto and eBPF are now accessible to more developers. The result: a potential surge in fast, small software, though possibly with more 'slop'.
If you don't like the choice, you can seemingly rewrite it in another language and you can make it pick a language that you, as a programmer, are entirely unfamiliar with.