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I liked the recent article about writing the Apple Silicon GPU Linux kernel driver in Rust. Now there's a perfect application for Rust if I ever heard one. The service described in this article is a great example of an application that Rust is not the best choice for.

When I first heard about Rust I really thought it would be the language to end all languages, but even after just a few days using it I realized that's not the case. Maybe someday someone will come up with that perfect language for everything, but given recent progress in AI I think the more likely long term outcome is that neural nets will start writing all our code for us. I wouldn't start work on a new programming language today given the changes that are clearly coming in the next 20 years or so. At least, not one designed for humans. Maybe there's an opportunity for someone to make the first programming language designed for neural nets to use.

Maybe that neural net language would look like Rust. The downside of lower programmer productivity may not matter when the programmer is a neural net. You can just run more neural nets! And neural nets are anything but perfect so they will still benefit from the safety guarantees Rust provides. Rust is the language that I don't want to write, but I want the software I use to be written in it.