I love debuggers, but unfortunately at my current job I've found that certain things we do to make our application more performant (mainly using giant structs full of fixed size arrays allocated at the start of the application) cause LLDB to slow to a crawl when `this` points to them. It really really doesn't like trying to read the state of a nearly 1GB struct...

Specifically, the rust dependencies are statically linked. It's extremely easy to dynamically link anything that has a C ABI from rust.

Considering it's just the desktop application being rendered to a canvas, I imagine not a ton of effort even needed to be put in and the UI framework is handling most of it.

I wouldn't know, the choice was made years before I joined the company, and I haven't come across anyone who told me what considerations went in back then.

External AI are banned, local or otherwise on-prem models are allowed. We're currently experimenting with some kind of llama instance running on one of our servers, but I personally don't use it much.