Astral's Agent-Optimized rustc Fork Will Be Open Sourced, Author Uses It Daily
charliermarsh · x · 2026-10-21
Charlie Marsh says Astral's rustc fork diverges less from upstream than radical alternatives and can feed improvements back — he's already upstreamed several patches from this work. The fork will be open sourced, and he has used it exclusively for weeks.
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