I don't understand the negativity toward AI coding. Used properly, it's extremely useful. We've spent decades trying to write better code faster, and this is the single biggest improvement I've seen in my lifetime.
I'm also resurrecting mold for macOS. Apple's faster linker reduced the need for a third-party one, so I abandoned my project. But AI-assisted coding has changed the economics: writing and maintaining a third-party linker has never been easier. So I'm giving it another shot.
We are rewriting the mold linker in Rust and adding linker script support so that mold can link essentially anything GNU ld can, including kernels and embedded programs. This will be mold 3.0. We started this effort to get Linux distros to replace their default linker with mold.
