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> It's more accessible to contributors. What would make go more "accessible to contributors" than Rust?

• yoz-y 7mo ago
  Go is a language one can learn and become functional in an afternoon. Rust is way more involved.
  • Yokohiii 7mo ago
    To vibe coders it doesn't matter, right?
    • kelipso 7mo ago
      Even then, you still need to read that code and Rust is way less read friendly than Go.
      • Yokohiii 7mo ago
        I have the impression that most vibe coders don't read code. I guess they would probably use something accessible to them, just in case.
        • seunosewa 7mo ago
          Successful vibe coders read code.
          • MarsIronPI 7mo ago
            I'm looking forward to watching Gas Town catch fire, if and when it does.
        • Andrei_dev 7mo ago
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          • Yokohiii 7mo ago
            LLMs should know that, for maybe a CRUD app, there should be taken care of security at various layers, i.e. input validation in controllers. Knowledge from popular frameworks that communicate security boundaries should be transferable for them, even if everything is custom code. Very confusing to me how they manage to completely ignore so much of it. I guess they are too good following suit of a productivity minded vibe coder.
    • olmo23 7mo ago
      If you already know some php python javascript and/or c, you can pretty much just wing with Claude code.
  • _flux 7mo ago
    Frankly I don't think one even needs to learn it, if you know a bunch of other languages and the codebase is good. I was able to just make a useful change to an open source project by just doing it, without having written any lines of Go before. Granted the MR needed some revisions. Rust is my favorite, though. There are values beyond ease of contribution. I can't replicate the experience with a Rust project anymore, but I suspect it would have been tougher.
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• ksh09 7mo ago
  Mature tui packages like bubbletea, lipgloss. Besides TS resemblance to go could push the movement of rewrite, not necessarily easier though. CC isn't foss in the first place, so the previous comment falls short.
  • jeremyjh 7mo ago
    > TS resemblance to go This is the second time I've seen claims like this in the last 24 hours and I'm afraid I might have lost contact with reality.
• verandaguy 7mo ago
  My personal opinion is that I like Rust much more than Go, but I can’t deny that Rust is a big, and more dauntingly to newcomers, pretty unopinionated language compared to Go. There are more syntax features, more and more complex semantics, and while rustc and clippy do a great job of explaining like 90% of errors, the remaining 10% suuuuuck. There’s also some choices imposed by the build system (like cargo allowing multiple versions of the same dep in a workspace) and by the macro system (axum has some unintuitive extractor ordering needs that you won’t find unless you know to look for them), and those things and the hurdles they present become intuitive after a time but just while getting started? Oof