

Right, good that you’re here. I phrased it specifically as “anti-scientific”, because of this post of yours:

That’s a strawman argument. The comic makes up a situation that doesn’t happen to rail against scientific consensus. If you find a natural scientist claiming “All X is Y” with full confidence and without using a ton of qualifiers, then don’t talk to them.
Similarly, reading individual scientific papers isn’t very useful. Talk to a doctor for nutrition advice. They spend years learning a condensate of what science has figured out. You’re not gonna catch that up by reading a selection of papers.


It might be a consideration, but I would assume they’re doing this, because they can use LLMs to do the rewrite.
Language models are fairly good at translating between languages (so long as the semantics don’t differ too much) and they’re fairly good for building software that already exists, because all the requirements are already defined.
And then Rust just has lots of advantages with the one disadvantage that writing it by hand takes relatively much time. If you’re not writing it by hand, you don’t care about that.