pgrust is ambitious but shall every developer build their postgres to prove they are good enough developers? The project claims to "show what Postgres would look like if it was built in 2026". It shows the traits yes: a single 3M line commit; no architecture discussion; no lessons learnt; claude it he top contributor; people writing emotional articles about why such projects are good.

It makes it really hard to connect to any of this. I loved danluu articles before, but somehow they've started to drift into this hard to grasp, hard to argue against shallow and empty world I try to get away from.