Dan Luu discusses Michael Malis's pgrust project, a Rust rewrite of PostgreSQL, arguing that we should be more ambitious with the software we build. Despite widespread skepticism toward AI-generated or low-effort rewrite projects, pgrust has uncovered real bugs in Postgres and may contribute optimizations even if the rewrite itself doesn't succeed.
Background
PostgreSQL rewrites in new systems languages (like Rust) have become a recurring theme in the open-source world, with projects aiming to improve performance and memory safety. pgrust is one such effort by Michael Malis.
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- Lobsters
- Published
- Oct 25, 2026 at 07:06 AM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10