Comment by samuell
1 day ago
Steve Francia (author of Hugo and a bunch of other top Go projects) wrote up some thoughts of Go's fit in the agentic era:
1 day ago
Steve Francia (author of Hugo and a bunch of other top Go projects) wrote up some thoughts of Go's fit in the agentic era:
> in my experience, a change that stays local in Go ripples through lifetimes and trait bounds in Rust
imo extensive use of generics/trait bounds and explicit lifetimes in Rust is a huge code smell. Large projects should be making liberal use of trait objects and smart pointers to keep everything understandable and modular. Giving an agent a simple coding practice SOP for Rust should be enough to garuntee basically the same localized refactorability that Go has.
I'm reading a lot of style / flavor / quality / vibes in your reply, something that will be different between every developer (for the most part); the thing with Go is that there's a lot less of that in the wider ecosystem.