| ▲ | yodon 5 hours ago | |
I wish they'd do a follow-on post drilling into the impact of the programming language on cost-per-task, specifically looking at cost to complete tasks in mainstream strongly typed languages (eg. C#, TypeScript) vs dynamic languages (eg. Python, JavaScript). Does the additional verbosity of the language help or hurt cost per task? | ||
| ▲ | trollbridge 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
I don't have hard data, but we have shifted to Rust and Swift (for frontend UI) for the bulk of our dev simply because it is a lot more predictable, easier for tool calls to edit, the build steps produce easier output for the agent to loop on, the tests are easier to write/get results from, etc., although I am mostly measuring this in time, not cost. Once the thing is rock-solid it's relatively easy to do a Swift->HTTP/HTML/CSS/React/TypeScript conversion. | ||