LLMs Make Hard Languages Like Rust and Zig the New Normal

Fast and Hard Code

Armin Ronacher observes that LLMs have made language choice nearly irrelevant, leading developers to pick 'hard' languages like Rust and Zig for speed and size. Projects such as Cloudflare's Artifacts and Vercel's fx are largely LLM-assisted, and developers are now tackling previously gatekept technologies like DWARF, eBPF, and custom crypto. The result: more slop, but also more developers who want fast, small software.