I like Rust and I'm an advocate of Rust, but this really isn't true (at least it hasn't been and I doubt much has significantly changed).
The syntax complexity and the ecosystem haven't been ideal for LLM development. And there have been publications on findings of LLM efficacy with different languages. Rust is most often towards the lower end of efficiency/correctness when benchmarked.
This paper uses models that are over a year old at this point. Many people didn't believe that LLMs were worth using for programming until 6 months after that, and now again this week we've had another huge leap in abilities.
This is beyond the other issues with the methodology of this study. For example, their Rust code was created by asking Deepseek to port their C++ code, not having it try and write Rust itself.
The other way around.
Rust is also one of the best languages to use with AI.
I like Rust and I'm an advocate of Rust, but this really isn't true (at least it hasn't been and I doubt much has significantly changed).
The syntax complexity and the ecosystem haven't been ideal for LLM development. And there have been publications on findings of LLM efficacy with different languages. Rust is most often towards the lower end of efficiency/correctness when benchmarked.
https://arxiv.org/html/2508.09101v1
This paper uses models that are over a year old at this point. Many people didn't believe that LLMs were worth using for programming until 6 months after that, and now again this week we've had another huge leap in abilities.
This is beyond the other issues with the methodology of this study. For example, their Rust code was created by asking Deepseek to port their C++ code, not having it try and write Rust itself.