alt Hacker NewsIt is such a ridiculously cool thing that we're reaching an era where the programming language you chose is as temporary a choice as the name of a variable.
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How can that signal anything other than improper planning. You prefer a changing codebase over something that has evolved and is being tested over a long period of time?
As it should be. Foundational principles between languages are the same, I don’t understand why positions are gatekeeped based on implementation trivia.
+1 ! We might actually have to rethink what are costly decisions for the post Agentic world. Truly sci-fi stuff
Except for platform constraints, like needing to use JS or Swift/Kotlin, why would I use anything else than Rust? I can’t even properly read it, but the agents somehow make it work well and the code doesn’t look particularly cluttered; and it’s so fast.
If you see magazines and computing TV shows from the 1980s, this is exactly what people expected computers to be able to do by the year 2000: Everyone would have a computer and write their own app for whatever they needed in a language close to plain English.
The fragmentation between programming languages and proprietary operating systems is exactly what hindered that optimism from coming true.
That's.. not..