15:I[981,["658","static/chunks/658-a698693f56d0116a.js","183","static/chunks/183-6beeeb801c274aaa.js","474","static/chunks/app/%5Btype%5D/layout-631c4730b83c8223.js"],"Posts"] 16:T417,I watched Claude burn tokens reordering functions in a Rust file, removing each one and rewriting it in the new position, clogging its own context window in the process. I started doing the reorders manually, then paused. This is a closed problem: fully verifiable. A good fit for building quickly with an AI coding agent. So I did.

When an agent needs to move a struct above its impl block, or group related functions together, it has to delete and re-insert lines — tracking whitespace, comments, attributes, and hoping nothing gets lost.

rust-reorder parses the file with syn, assigns ordinals to every top-level item, and lets you move or reorder them. Comments and doc attributes travel with their items. A safety check verifies no non-empty lines were lost or duplicated.

Three commands: `list` (shows items with ordinals), `move` (relocate one item before/after another), `order` (full reorder by ordinal sequence).

Works fine for humans too, but the real use case is giving agents a reliable primitive for code organization.17:T553,Well, it happened. After endless release candidates, we've finally made it to v0.1.0.

What's inside:

GPU-accelerated rendering with WebGPU shaders, shadows, and goodies like silhouette edges and a special soft-light mode

Core operations run up to 1000x faster than the original PyMOL. Surface generation that used to send you on a coffee run now finishes the moment you hit the button

Full PyMOL selection algebra support — 95+ keywords, boolean logic, distance/expansion operators, slash-macros

Distance, angle, and dihedral measurements, atom labels — everything you need for structural analysis

Python API — from pymol_rs import cmd and you're right at home

PDB, mmCIF, BinaryCIF, SDF/MOL, MOL2, XYZ, GRO — read and write, automatic format detection, transpar

The future of web frameworks in the age of AI