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svachalek • yesterday at 8:14 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I've been thinking recently, there's hardly any reason not to use a native language like Rust anymore. The classic reasoning for languages like Python is that it prioritizes developer time and resources over compute resources, but now developer time is rapidly trending to zero and everything is compute dominated.


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joshheitzman • yesterday at 9:00 PM

Not having to build still saves wall clock time. Also Python is a concise language (fewer tokens in context) with a monster ecosystem that avoids a lot of code having to written by agents (fewer tokens for the current task and fewer for future tasks by keeping the code base smaller).

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kenhwang • yesterday at 8:27 PM

Rust has Rhai and Roto too if you need better than Python level of developer considerations.