| ▲ | clintonc 4 hours ago | |
Strange article. Why is Go the best language for agents instead of, say, Python? Here are the points the author seems to make: --- # Author likes go Ok, cool story bro... # Go is compiled Nice, but Python also has syntax and type checking -- I don't typically have any more luck generating more strictly typed code with agents. # Go is simple Sure. Python for a long time had a reputation as "pseudocode that runs", so the arguments about go being easy to read might be bias on the part of the author (see point 1). # Go is opinionated Sure. Python also has standards for formatting code, running tests (https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html), and has no need for building binaries. # Building cross-platform Go binaries is trivial Is that a big deal if you don't need to build binaries at all? # Agents know Go Agents seem to know python as well... --- Author seems to fall short of supporting the claim that Go is better than any other language by any margin, mostly relying on the biases they have that Go is a superior language in general than, say, Python. There are arguments to be made about compiled versus interpreted, for example, but if you don't accept that Go is the best language of them all for every purpose, the argument falls flat. | ||
| ▲ | bigfishrunning 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
I would say Go is better then python for 2 reasons 1) Go runs faster, so if you're not optimizing for dev time (and if you're vibe coding, you're not) then it's a clear winner there 2) Python's barrier to entry is incredibly low, so intuitively there's likely a ton of really terrible python code in the training corpus for these tools | ||