Why LiteLLM Is Rewriting Its Gateway in Rust — and Why AI Developers Should Care
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The AI ecosystem is quietly going through the same transition web infrastructure went through years ago: the performance-critical pieces are moving off interpreted runtimes onto systems languages like Rust. LiteLLM rewriting its AI gateway in Rust is the clearest evidence yet — and a sign the AI stack is maturing from experiment into production infrastructure.