Dev mulls Rust rewrite of agent platform because speed-of-light compile times matter for agents
lucasmeijer · x · 2026-10-16
Lucas Meijer says he's seriously considering rewriting his agentsinthecloud platform in Rust — a language he 'hates with a passion' — because he suspects the most important property of an 'agent friendly language' is speed-of-light compile times, letting agents iterate quickly. He's also considering Jonathan Blow's Jai. The thread raises a rarely discussed angle: when agents write code, language speed properties get re-weighted.
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