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Comment by vlovich123

11 hours ago

No I’m not making that argument, you’re the one making that claim as if it’s the only alternative to your position.

My position is more nuanced. A) what does the test coverage look like B) how is the deployment managed.

I suspect B is going to be my biggest issue - normally you’d deploy this slowly over time to monitor problems and whatnot. But ultimately the real test is seeing how it actually performs in the wild and kinds of problems people report. But you can always keep using the zig version if you wanted. So ultimately it’s a lot of consternation over a nothing burger. You can laugh at them if they screw up the release, but it’s a bold attempt at trying something legit. It took Microsoft 2 years of many engineer hours migrating typescript to Go. If it takes significantly less calendar time and human time, you could reasonably even evaluate what a Rust based typescript looks like vs Go if you wanted to for an order of magnitude cheaper.