More vibe porting

July 11, 2026 · Jerome Gill

Another vibe ported project caught my eye. PGRust.

Someone has ported postgres into rust. This seems to be a two person project of over 7k commits. I don’t know enough rust to really comment on the code quality, but they claim good scores on certain metrics.

But what for?

Postgres is such a core technology that I really struggle to believe a vibe coded port will gain much traction. I think this issue speaks for all of us.

Maybe it’s a cultural thing as a european but I find myself really turned off by the waste of producing stuff like this. Like, hand written passion projects were one thing, but these days anyone with a credit card and something to prove can create a port of a major open source project. But it doesn’t just cost money. It’s carbon, heat, water.

No one is going to use this over postgres. It’s just burning tokens for the sake of it existing. If the core maintainers want to port parts of postgres into rust, they will.

It isn’t proving anything. We all know it’s possible to create test passing code with llms.

I guess I just find my own reaction to it interesting. Just a few months ago I found the idea that we could more or less automate shifts into more appropriate languages for old projects exciting and potentially really valuable. Maybe I am already over it.