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Also why is it a nodejs app? With the explosion of LLM and the insane increase in productivity shouldn't it be a Rust app?
by thewhitetulip 3mo ago
Also why is it a nodejs app? With the explosion of LLM and the insane increase in productivity shouldn't it be a Rust app?
- filcuk 3mo agoBetween being criticised for too much LLLM and not enough, the developers can't win can they?
- thewhitetulip 3mo agoWell they can win! Since everyone is so pro LLM don't write apps in Nodejs LOL Pre LLM nodejs was convenient option to deploy to all platforms at once. Post LLM that's no longer a limitation! Just prompt more to create apps in native language! Anyways RAM is getting costlier by the day due to LLMs themselves That is unless devs don't use LLMs at all. Then they should simply state in the GitHub repo that we don't use AI! I wouldn't use AI for hobby projects tbh. It's my personal preference
- dewey 3mo ago> Just prompt more to create apps in native language! If you have ever done that you know that that's as true as "write once, run everywhere". There will always be tweaks and iterations, even if it saves you a lot of time.
- thewhitetulip 3mo agoI was being sarcastic but okay. Because every other day we hear how excellent LLM is that we don't need to write code anymore
- dewey 3mo agoSorry, misunderstood that.
- mianos 3mo agoThere is still a place for 'but rust’, in between too much and too little LLM usage.
- hendrikmans 3mo agoWhat would make Rust better for this type of app compared to Node?
- thewhitetulip 3mo agoPray tell me why a desktop app is running on a browser in the age of LLMs? Electron was written to make dev times faster But since LLMs are basically super engineers can't the app be written in native language rather than running on v8? Maybe not rust. But then zed people did develop a cross platform library for apps didn't they?!
- mhluongo 3mo agoTauri is a good balance. Rust "backend" plus a native web view, so less JS and a lighter binary.
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- thewhitetulip 3mo agoI didn't know you can't post emojis! I also exploded laughing reading your comment I expect people to not understand sarcasm on Reddit. I suppose I shouldn't expect it on HN as well
- iLoveOncall 3mo agoThe thing is that maybe your comment is sarcasm, but half of HN commenters would make the same comment 100% seriously.
- thewhitetulip 3mo agoOh wait. Is it? I am just tired of JavaScript being used for desktop apps! Can't someone create a framework using LLM that doesn't use JS? But the zed team did create a cross platform library did not they?
- throwthrowuknow 3mo agoWhy even limit the app to Rust? Cross compilation is for humans. Just have the LLM make multiple versions of the codebase using whatever language and SDK is best integrated into each OS.
- thewhitetulip 3mo agoAbsolutely! LLM is basically magic at this point (or so we hear)
- danielmeskin 3mo agoWhy limit to language and SDK? Have the LLM write machine code.
- thewhitetulip 3mo agoAbsolutely. LLMs are Magic! Go ahead
- throwthrowuknow 3mo agoCorrect
- zaphirplane 3mo agoIt can be the language they prefer. Why would someone spend money to create software in some language for the sake of having an LLM generate it
- thewhitetulip 3mo agoThe counter argument is that since LLM resembles magic why use inefficient nodejs that is basically an app running inside chrone Why not use native binaries? Is efficiency not important in 2026?
- zaphirplane 3mo agorepeating the statement doesn’t make a counter point
- thewhitetulip 3mo agoIt does when your comment didn't address a single point of the original comment!
- mianos 3mo agoWith the explosion in token usage, why not write it in z80 assembly and run it in a z80 emulator written in webasm?
- thewhitetulip 3mo agoWhy not?