Arrr, me hearty! Ye be askin’ for a simple piece o’ code in Rust, peppered with pirate comments. Here be a wee program that prints a hearty greeting:

fn main() {
    // Avast, me hearties! We start our voyage here.
    let greeting = "Ahoy, matey! Welcome aboard!";

    // Yo ho ho! We print our greeting to the open sea!
  println!("{}", greeting);
}

Now ye be havin’ a taste o’ pirate-infused Rust code! If ye be havin’ any more requests or need further assistance, feel free to speak up, and I’ll be at yer service!

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      Arrgh matey, ye be walking ye plank. Ye be sleeping with the fishes down in Davy Jones’ Locker. Yarrrr.

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      Every time I have asked chatgpt to code for me it has come up with almost correct nonsense. When issues in the code are pointed out, chatgpt generates new code fixing the issue and creating two more new ones. Some of the issues are using features found in other languages in the language requested.

      Programmers - your jobs are not in danger. It will take a programmer to check any generated code really carefully and be sure to understand what the AI has spewed forth.

      For something as simple as hello world it would get it right. For creating a function to print numbers with imbedded “,” commas (to show powers of 10^3 separation) it got it wrong. It gave a program that returned “123,4567.89”

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        My original comment was me being silly. But I totally agree. That’s why I love copilot’s name. Because the ai is just that, the copilot. We still have to fly the plane for the most part ourselves

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        Yeah, noticed this too, simple things, no prob, get into more gritty things and it will make a mistake. And yes, you tell it to fix it, but then 2 more bugs are introduced 😂.

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    When I compiled that program, the executable was around 10MB. I wrote the same program in C, and the executable was 15kB. That’s about 3 orders of magnitude difference. Is Rust really 1000 times better than C? :-)

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        Thanks for the resources. I’m old school, and so far haven’t really looked into Rust; I look forward to watching the talk you linked to.

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        this is not due to safety but rather std. Set opt level to 3 and enable fat lto

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      The standard lib is statically linked, so there will be a higher baseline binary size. This means that yes, a hello world project may be 10mb unstripped but a considerably more complicated project could in turn be 11mb unstripped. Aka it doesn’t matter much in practice.

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      I wrote it in C and compiled it for an ATtiny13 and it was 162 bytes. That includes the code to initialize the microcontroller and a bit banged transmit only UART to actually output the text.

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      Enable LTO, abort on panic, and a higher optimization level and it’ll drop that a ton

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      set opt level to 3 and enable fat lto.
      even without fat lto enabled, my entire multithreaded voxel engine with multithreaded procedural world generation, procedural structures and multiplayer is 5mb in size.