Mysterious crashes when handling unexpected data. The kinds of bugs that are “acceptable” in a prototype but catastrophic in a system, making real decisions.
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Rust doesn’t guarantee you won’t run into any of these. I think speed (no garbage collection) and guaranteeing there’s no memory corruption (use after free kind of bugs) are good reasons to choose rust.
Also, if many of the integrations are happening against C / CPython libraries, this will mean a lot of unsafe code without any rust guarantees.
I don't think any language guarantees a 100% bug-free project, and yes, unsafe C/CPython libraries mean unsafe code, thats expected. My stance is Rust stands at a great place to build high quality and performat agents and tools that integrate with AI.
Good write up!
This bit of the write up that states why rust:
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Memory leaks in long-running agents.
Race conditions in concurrent tool execution.
Mysterious crashes when handling unexpected data. The kinds of bugs that are “acceptable” in a prototype but catastrophic in a system, making real decisions.
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Rust doesn’t guarantee you won’t run into any of these. I think speed (no garbage collection) and guaranteeing there’s no memory corruption (use after free kind of bugs) are good reasons to choose rust.
Also, if many of the integrations are happening against C / CPython libraries, this will mean a lot of unsafe code without any rust guarantees.
I don't think any language guarantees a 100% bug-free project, and yes, unsafe C/CPython libraries mean unsafe code, thats expected. My stance is Rust stands at a great place to build high quality and performat agents and tools that integrate with AI.