Zerostack 1.0 — Unix-Inspired Coding Agent in Pure Rust, ~8MB RAM vs ~300MB for JS Agents — 474 Points on HN

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Zerostack, a terminal-native coding agent written entirely in Rust, hit 1.0 on crates.io with 474 points and 252 comments on Hacker News. It uses ~8MB RAM on idle and ~12MB when working (vs ~300MB for JS-based agents like Claude Code or Codex CLI), with 0.0% idle CPU. Features an iterative coding loop for long-horizon tasks with plan-then-execute architecture and up to 8 concurrent sub-agents.