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RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch

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277 points amazonhut | 1 comments | 15 Sep 25 09:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.284s | source
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untrimmed ◴[15 Sep 25 10:33 UTC] No.45248154[source]▶
As someone who has spent days wrestling with Python dependency hell just to get a model running, a simple cargo run feels like a dream. But I'm wondering, what was the most painful part of NOT having a framework? I'm betting my coffee money it was debugging the backpropagation logic.
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ricardobeat ◴[15 Sep 25 11:26 UTC] No.45248416[source]▶
Have you tried uv [1]? It has removed 90% of the pain of running python projects for me.

[1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

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DiabloD3 ◴[15 Sep 25 11:50 UTC] No.45248587[source]▶
uv is great, but I think the real fix is just abandoning Python.

The culture that language maintains is rather hostile to maintainable development, easier to just switch to Rust and just write better code by default.

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1. Exuma ◴[15 Sep 25 12:18 UTC] No.45248782[source]▶
i hate python, but the idea of replacing python with rust is absurd