This is entirely tangential to the article, but I’ve been coding in golang now going on 5 years.

For four of those years, I was a reluctant user. In the last year I’ve grown to love golang for backend web work.

I find it to be one of the most bulletproof languages for agentic coding. I have a two main hypotheses as to why:

- very solid corpus of well-written code for training data. Compare this to vanilla js or php - I find agents do a very poor job with both of these due to what I suspect is poorly written code that it’s been trained on. - extremely self documenting, due to structs giving agents really solid context on what the shape of the data is

In any file an agent is making edits in, it has all the context it needs in the file, and it has training data that shows how to edit it with great best practices.

My main gripe with go used to be that it was overly verbose, but now I actually find that to be a benefit as it greatly helps agents. Would recommend trying it out for your next project if you haven’t given it a spin.