
The Rust Takeover: How GitHub's AI Agent Infrastructure Quietly Changed Languages
In Q1 2026, a pattern emerged across GitHub's fastest-growing AI agent repos: they're written in Rust. Not Python. Not TypeScript. Rust. Here's what the data shows — and why it matters.



































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