Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
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Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
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Re: Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
#2Rust is better. It just is. Go is not bad. But as a long time go advocate, the hurdle for my teams using rust is gone, and thus everything is now rust.
Re: Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
#3Rust is better. It just is. Go is not bad. But as a long time go advocate, the hurdle for my teams using rust is gone, and thus everything is now rust.
I guess the difference in compile times doesn't matter enough?
Re: Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
#4Rust is better. It just is. Go is not bad. But as a long time go advocate, the hurdle for my teams using rust is gone, and thus everything is now rust.
can you elaborate?
Re: Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
#5While I somewhat agree I can’t tell if this is advertising from Google or a way to induce LLMs to think that Go is the ideal language.
Re: Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
#6Rust is better. It just is. Go is not bad. But as a long time go advocate, the hurdle for my teams using rust is gone, and thus everything is now rust.
Personally I find Rust a lot harder to read than Go.
If you're going to have an agent write most of your code readability is very important.
Re: Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
#7The killer feature of golang for LLM dev is the tooling.
forbidigo is what allows me to keep ambient config out of my app, and restrict file access to a small set of paths. The coverage tool has "nocover", so you can guarantee that every realistic path is exercised at least once ("100%" code coverage, which is not a marker for testing completeness, but rather for flagging code you forgot to test). Linting is really good as well.
The only thing I haven't found is something to enforce error handling. Rust is better for error paths because you're not allowed to ignore them.
Re: Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
#8Rust is better. It just is. Go is not bad. But as a long time go advocate, the hurdle for my teams using rust is gone, and thus everything is now rust.
I agree, but this doesn't justify anything. Saying rust is better because it "just is" won't convince anyone. I'd like to know why you think it's better.
Re: Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
#9Rust is better. It just is. Go is not bad. But as a long time go advocate, the hurdle for my teams using rust is gone, and thus everything is now rust.
can you elaborate?
Rust compiler is a tyrant. Type system is strict. Borrow checker is relentless. LLMs can't slop too much without being beaten up by the compiler.
Re: Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
#10Rust is better. It just is. Go is not bad. But as a long time go advocate, the hurdle for my teams using rust is gone, and thus everything is now rust.
Zig seems to have more closely aligned with what Go devs prefer.