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imho Go is a far easier language to learn than Rust, so it lowers the barrier to entry for new contributors.
by ChocolateGod 2y ago
imho Go is a far easier language to learn than Rust, so it lowers the barrier to entry for new contributors.
- rickette 2y agoWhich is a massive pro for any open source project
- frou_dh 2y agoSome big projects have so many people trying to do PRs that it's actually a bit of a hassle to deal with them all. So I don't think maximising the number of contributors should necessarily be one of the top goals for projects that are already big or have guaranteed relevance.
- libria 2y agoIs learning a language even a thing anymore with $Internal_or_external_LLM_helper plugin available for every IDE? I haven't found syntax lookups to be that much a concern anymore and any boneheaded LLM suggestions are trivial to detect/fix.
- ChocolateGod 2y agoYou still need to know the language it generates, otherwise you're generating gobbldy gook