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citizenpaul • yesterday at 8:26 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

People are sleeping on Go as a LLM language of choice. Everyone trying to rewrite in rust which is fine and rust is fine. However its compile times are several orders of magnitude greater than Go. You can have LLMs write and compile 20 apps in the time one rust app compiles. I've got a Go personal project that would take hours for rust to compile, I can't imagine making the same velocity in Rust. Though I do see the workplace appeal of bringing back the xkcd "compiling" meme.

However it kind of makes me feel like my professional life was wasted and I don't really know what kind of future I have. One of Go's main points was you can pick it up in a weekend. What career moat do people like us have?


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simlevesque • yesterday at 9:17 PM

My only issue with it is that you can't ship a wasm go app in under 2mb. With rust you can make it under 100kb.

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pjmlp • yesterday at 8:50 PM

I would rather have LLM directly generate machine code, and best of all, macro Assemblers are blazing fast for decades.

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