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Why the hell is a CLI coding agent built in JavaScript? It’s wild what happens when a generation of programmers doesn’t know anything except webdev. How far fr
by forrestthewoods 11mo ago
Why the hell is a CLI coding agent built in JavaScript?
It’s wild what happens when a generation of programmers doesn’t know anything except webdev. How far from grace we have fallen.
- simonw 11mo agoThe big advantage of a language like JavaScript of Python for a CLI tool of this nature is that they naturally support adding extensions or plugins. That's quite a bit harder if your tool is built using a compiled language like Go.
- forrestthewoods 11mo agoEhhhh. In either case you have to define a neat clean plugin API. Whether it loads a DLL/SO or just some scripts isn’t that huge of a difference.