It's further than you think. I spoke to someone today about and he told me it produced a basic SaaS app for him. He said that it looked surprisingly okay and the basic functionalities actually worked too. He did note that it kept using deprecated code, consistently made a few basic mistakes despite being told how to avoid it, and failed to produce nontrivial functionalies.
He did say that it used very common libraries and we hypothesized that it functioned well because a lot of relevant code could be found on GitHub and that it might function significantly worse when encountering less popular frameworks.
Still it's quite impressive, although not surprising considering it was a matter of time before people would start to feed the feedback of an IDE back into it.
Of course, for hot paths or small examples it is, but I doubt it's feasible or maintainable to write a “real” projects like core utilities in assembly.
Rust is better for writing multithreaded applications which means that the small amount of utilities that can utilize parallelism receive a significant speedup. uutils multithreaded sort was apparently 6x faster than the GNU utils single threaded version.
P.S. I strongly doubt handwritten assembly is more efficient than modern C compilers.
Sorry, I only watched it very briefly after receiving the report, it seems to be fine. Sorry for bothering you.
EDIT: I just watched it fully, and it's painful how relevant it is, but I hope that one day we will look and see, how through perseverance and collaboration we've overcome it yet again.
Yes I remember the lemmy.world servers being DDOS'ed every couple of days and having to switch between 3 clients and the webinterface because all of the apps were missing some features. The alternative frontends like photon and tesseract have really improved and imo should be the new defaults.
My grandmother lived through the hunger winter and she remained adamant about not wasting any food. Those things have a big impact.