- A comment on libxml, not on your work:
Funny how so many companies use this library in production and not one steps in to maintain this project and patch the issues.
What a sad state of affairs we are in.
- Amazing work! I'd love to hear more details about your workflow with Claude Code.
As a side note and this isn't a knock on your project specifically. I think the community needs to normalize disclaimers for "vibe-coded" packages. Consumers really need to understand the potential risks of relying on agent-generated code upfront.
- Yes, you can rip off any sucker who published a test suite when the AI is trained on existing code as well. Congratulations, you will be showered with praise and AI mafia money.
- > arena-based tree with zero unsafe in the public API
Why "in the public API"? Does this imply it's using unsafe behind the hood? If so, what for?
- > I do think there is something interesting to think about here in how coding agents like Claude Code can quickly iterate given a test suite.
This is a point I've tried to advocate for a while. Specially to empower non coders and make them see that we CAN approach automation with control.
Some aspects will be the classic unit or integration tests for validation. Others, will be AI Evals [1] which to me could be the common language for product design for different families/disciplines who don't quite understand how to collaborate with each other.
The amount of progress in a short time is amazing to see.
- [1] https://ai-evals.io/
- The code might be a little verbose which is tiresome for humans to read and follow. Structure and functions look idiomatic. It seems to be using xml parser idioms which makes it readable.
It could be doing double checks in both tokeniser and parser and things like that.
Actually looks like a good starting point and reference for someone working on xml parsers in rust.
- Intriguing work! Does it panic on any bad inputs? That's better than memory unsafety of libxml2, but still a DoS concern for some servers.
by agentifysh
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- lot of weird comments here getting upset AI was used but thanks for doing this
libxml2 is always one of those libraries that i used to have trouble with for different platforms
I think its great that more and more OSS projects get attention now with ai coding agents
by nicoburns
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- How does it compare to the original in terms of source code size (number of lines of code?)
by fourthark
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- Does it fix the security flaws that caused the original project to be shut down?
by Imustaskforhelp
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- Can this work with XLSX (The Open XML format) & .odt format though these also use zip. It would be interesting to think if this can help solve this and create a rust GUI app with very basic XLSX doc editing as alternative to OpenOffice/LibreOffice.
- It would be interesting to try this approach out with mQuickJS, QuickJS or micropython. They could potentially run hoops around the ones that were first coded in Rust, such as Boa or RustPython.
- cool, now do it without the test suite that some human made for you
by mdavid626
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- Can you add “made with AI” to the GitHub repo?
It’s time to make this mandatory.
Nothing against AI - just to inform people about quality, maintainability and future of this library. No human has mental model of the code, so don’t waste your time creating it - the original author didn’t either.
by lynxbot2026
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