Re:Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
by Pavilion2095 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @05:18AM
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And by that point a program written in go has been deployed and making money for months. These are two wildly different languages, people should stop comparing them as if they're targetting the same niche. Checks and protections that rust has aren't necessary in most cases, but increase development and maintenance time.
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Re:Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
by soniczentropy on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @05:57AM
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Do you have some evidence of that? I use both daily and my experience has been the opposite, if anything. Once I was as proficient at Rust as I was at Go, the "increased development and maintenance time" disappeared completely.
Re:Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
by Pavilion2095 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @03:32AM
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> Once I was as proficient at Rust as I was at Go
That's a big time investment for many people though. The one they—or rather their employers—cannot really afford.
Re:Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
by pdimitar on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @10:55AM
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Rust's disadvantage in adding time is mostly a one-time initial investment, in my experience.
After you get comfortable and learn the important idioms, you go through the development loop quite quickly.
Compilation/linking speed can still suck though.