Comment by kayson
6 days ago
When Microsoft rewrote it in go, there was a comment from one of the leads that they chose it over rust because of the similarity in paradigms (garbage collection, etc), and that using rust would've been more difficult, requiring a lot of "hoop jumping". Now that you've done it... Thoughts?
Yes indeed. More than 1 million lines of code (including tests) is jumping lots of hoops but with LLMs it's not as painful so you can just ask it to do the hard things.
Example of a Claude Code session after 2 hours of "Crunching" that came out without results https://github.com/mohsen1/tsz/pull/4868 (Edit I force pushed to PR to solve the problem, you can see the initial refuse message in the initial version of PR description)
Funny thing is, the last percent of the test have been so hard to work on that Opus 4.7 routinely bails and says "it's too involved or complicated" so I had to add prompts specifically asking it not to bail.
You should try GPT, I’d be really interested to hear if it works better. (Exclusively using GPT for systems work at $DAYJOB, but compare with opus every couple weeks and GPT consistently gives me better results)
I've been comparing Claude vs Codex using GPT and Claude consistently is better than GPT about reasoning, about writing code, and using the tools as appropriate.
GPT for instance had a lot of issues using git worktrees, and didn't understand how to correctly use it to then merge stuff back into a main branch, vs Claude which seems to do this much more naturally.
GPT also left me with broken tests/code that I had to iterate on manually, Claude is much better about reasoning through code. Primarily Python.
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OpenAI gave me that 10x boost and used it all already for this week. I'm guessing the last 50 tests is only doable by GPT 5.5 xhigh
Do you have any write ups on your workflow with Claude and github dev?
That might be opus 4.7 behaviour because I also get that all the time in the past few weeks. Also complex code base, but likely an order of magnitude simpler than yours.
They mentioned that they wanted to port their compiler over to retain existing behavior (vs a re-write) and Rust has a hard time with their cyclic data structures.
Is GC useful for a static type checker? Or did they make a new runtime?
The point is that having a GC will affect your data structure and algorithm design, so it’s easier to automatically transform JS or TS to Go than to rust because you’re mostly reducing things down to one problem (translation) rather than multiple intertwined problems.
tyscript compiler is a cli tool. and is run for short periods of time. GC collection and memory leaks should be least of issue to look for