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> Startup got 10% faster on Linux but otherwise, barely anyone noticed. Just that? I was expecting more from that rewrite. Maybe Rust is not so worth it after

• IshKebab 3mo ago
  I don't think their motivation was primarily user-visible stuff. They backed themselves into a corner by forking Zig, and also were fed up with fixing memory errors. You wouldn't notice either of those if you were a user, unless you happened to hit one of those bugs.
• ifwinterco 3mo ago
  It was already written in a very performant language so no significant performance improvements should be expected. The benefit of a rust rewrite is memory safety improvements, but currently they've just rewritten zig to unsafe rust so they don't have that either yet
• voiper1 3mo ago
  The blog claims rust chosen mainly to address memory issues, which rust is a better language for. So, success would simply be less new memory errors / easier to patch old ones.
  • marcindulak 3mo ago
    Claude installer/updater had a high memory usage problem (Gigabytes of resident memory used during a fresh installation of Clade with it's native install.sh script, or during a claude update). This was reported as early as December 2025, see https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/12327#issuecomment-3614767879 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/12327#issue.... The latest Claude installer (2.1.215) possibly does not have it anymore https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4953#issuecomment-5015922958 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4953#issuec..., but more tries on various machines are needed to confirm that.