Makepad dev points AI at his in-repo Rust JIT: 1-minute compile, claims it beats everything
rikarends · x · 2026-10-25
In a thread with andrewgazelka, Makepad developer rikarends suggests pointing your AI coding assistant at the JIT implementation in the makepad/makepad work branch on GitHub. He claims the whole thing compiles in about a minute and runs way faster than conventional approaches — an example of using AI agents to read and learn from existing codebases.
Related event: Makepad Author Builds Rust JIT with AI in Two Weeks, Passing 99.8% of Tests(3 posts)→
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