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RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch

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269 points amazonhut | 1 comments | 15 Sep 25 09:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.196s | 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. pjmlp ◴[15 Sep 25 13:16 UTC] No.45249308[source]▶
I know Python since version 1.6.

It is great for learning on how to program (BASIC replacement), OS scripting tasks as Perl replacement, and embedded scripting in GUI applications.

Additionally understand PYTHONPATH, and don't mess with anything else.

All the other stuff that is supposed to fix Python issues, I never bothered with them.

Thankfully, other languages are starting to also have bindings to the same C and C++ compute libraries.