Pattern: Terminal Coding Agents Are Being Rewritten in Rust for Token and Startup Efficiency

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Devin Local's from-scratch Rust rewrite (up to 30% more token-efficient) and Google's Rust-based Workspace CLI join a broader move toward Rust-backed agent runtimes, while Codex's release focuses on shaving TUI startup and session-restore latency. The throughline: as agents run longer and recurse deeper, vendors are treating per-token and per-startup overhead as a first-order product concern, not an implementation detail.