Quick tangent if you’re willing to humor me…

I've been noticing that many new projects that would have been written in Python or Node a year ago are starting to be written in Go, Rust, etc.

Theory: people realized there’s little benefit to Python for agents. As Zep wrote, an “agent is a long-running, concurrent, I/O-bound process that spends most of its time waiting on a model, a tool, or a human[1]” — not a particular strength of Python.

I'm wondering if you'd considered Go (or others—Go’s just my fav ) before landing on Node, and more broadly whether you've noticed a similar pattern?

1: https://blog.getzep.com/agentic-development-in-go/

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kstenerud 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Go and rust have better guardrails that help agents write better code. Python and JS aren't opinionated enough.

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computerex an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think it's because python is far more approachable/ubiquitous than go/rust. It's the entry level language for many people from all disciplines of life. Scientific community uses it, data science uses it.

Golang/rust however are very convenient to distribute. Small, portable, fast exe's are very nice. With agentic coding golang/rust are now accessible to a lot more people.

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cedws 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is that so? I feel like I’m seeing more Python and TypeScript than ever, especially when it comes to AI tooling, which is disappointing.

I can’t fathom why anybody would want to continue working with dynamically typed languages when they can now get types for free.

	▲	esikich 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In the early days of LLM coding, it seemed to be much better at Python for whatever reason. I was never a big Python guy, but I got better results so I ran with it. That definitely doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Last week I asked Codex to mash up Super Mario Bros and Contra ROMs and it just did everything in straight assembly and absolutely crushed it. It couldn't do that 2 years ago. Python is just momentum and I think it's going to die down now that the models are much better.
	▲	dannyw 15 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I suspect a lot of the Python and TypeScript code is getting prompted by folks who don't know any difference between dynamically typed and statically typed.

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ipnon an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, now that humans write less than 99% of code, the most important criteria for a language isn't readability, which I'd argue was always Python's main selling point, but the underlying runtime. There are practical limits to how fast a Python program can run either under I/O or CPU bound compared to other popular and mature languages with extensive libraries, like Elixir, Go or C++, depending on your use case.

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tripleee an hour ago | parent [-]

> now that humans write less than 99% of code, the most important criteria for a language isn't readability

please tell me you're reading the AI code

	▲	computerex an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Not really. I test the output thoroughly, I examine the thinking process, I go through the diff to see if anything jumps out but I my thinking process/the way I work has changed. Low level programming thinking has gotten atrophied it seems.