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Comment on: Zig → Rust porting guide
The Rust ecosystem is also a moving target.Virtually all crates are still at version 0.x and introduce constant breaking changes: [https://00f.net/2025/10/17/state-of-the-rust-ecosystem/](https://00f.net/2025/10/17/state-of-the-rust-ecosystem/)If you don’t want to use obsolete versions of dependencies, you need to explicitly tell the model that. Then you have to hope it can adopt new APIs it wasn’t trained on, rewrite existing code to handle the breaking changes, and keep your fingers crossed that nothing else breaks in the process.LLMs perform much better with Go, not only because of the lack