Claude Code and Rust

After 10 years of writing C++ while at Google, I’ve really enjoyed writing Rust over the last 6 months at Anthropic . It’s truly a breath of fresh air - modern APIs, confidence that if my code compiles it will work as expected, easy dependency management, a great linter. I say that as someone deeply familiar with modern high-performance C++, having touched around 1 million lines of C++ in various…