[ajross]

I think it's less that it's gaining in popularity than that we're seeing some backlash from the people who aren't liking Rust as much as they wanted to. The boring truth is still that if you have a "bottom layer" task to solve that needs access to hardware details (be it instruction formats, SIMD algorithms, MMIO drivers, system-dependent stuff like container management, etc...) C remains the quickest and easiest and frankly the most fun environment to do it in.

I mean, there's a reason why Karpathy is hacking on "llm.c" as part of his "clean up the world" project and not "llm.rs".

Is that a good thing or bad thing? I won't engage. But I think that's where the psychology is. For myself, I genuinely love C in a way that it's clear I never will Rust.

[MisterTea]

> I mean, there's a reason why Karpathy is hacking on "llm.c" as part of his "clean up the world" project and not "llm.rs".

You post this as if everyone is supposed to know who Karpathy is or what any of that means...

[throwaway17_17]

Andrej Karpathy was the head of AI at Tesla and was the primary developer of the AI/Machine Learning curriculum at Stanford. He is an unabashed user of C for the development of ML.

[carbonatom]

> You post this as if everyone is supposed to know who Karpathy is or what any of that means...

Firstly, this is HN! If every commenter mentioning Karpathy has to prefix their comment with an intro about Karpathy and LLM, then HN will become a boring read.

Secondly, if you don't know who Karpathy is and what any of this means, it is not all that difficult to search for "Karpathy" and "LLM" in your favorite search engine.