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Why I Vibe in Go, Not Rust or Python

23 pointsby riclibyesterday at 11:16 PM12 commentsview on HN

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giancarlostorotoday at 12:47 AM

I "Vibe" in all three to be honest. I've had good success, the key thing is, and I say this often, you have to think like an architect, and basically tell it how you want something built not just what you want built.

dmixtoday at 12:37 AM

I use Node for one off vibe-coded stuff, that way I can't pretend it's not a piece of crap.

riclibyesterday at 11:16 PM

Last night I built a website from scratch. Not a landing page. A full blog with three-domain routing, animated video covers, an audio player with playlists, dark mode, RSS feeds, social cards, and a sticky sidebar with a lightbox. Seven commits. Zero test failures. One binary.

The site you've read the article on. Built in one session. In Go.

I work with an AI that writes most of the code. The question everyone asks is which language to vibe in. Python is fast to start. Rust is correct by construction. Go is boring.

I choose boring. Here's why.

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Tempest1981today at 12:49 AM

> The deploy script is 30 lines of bash

riclib, should that be 3 lines?

ebuyantoday at 12:42 AM

I found TypeScript and Node.js particularly have advantages as well

oldgreggtoday at 12:34 AM

Add air for auto reload and ur golden

UltraSanetoday at 12:41 AM

I have found C# has a the same advantages as Go when vibe coding.

kitsune1today at 12:49 AM

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