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Why Go Is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering

https://developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an-ideal-language-for-ai-assisted-software-engineering/
24•0xedb•52m ago

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mbrumlow•11m ago
Rust is better. It just is. Go is not bad. But as a long time go advocate, the hurdle for my teams using rust is gone, and thus everything is now rust.
rsyring•9m ago
I guess the difference in compile times doesn't matter enough?
nchmy•9m ago
can you elaborate?
greenavocado•7m ago
Rust compiler is a tyrant. Type system is strict. Borrow checker is relentless. LLMs can't slop too much without being beaten up by the compiler.
simonw•8m ago
Personally I find Rust a lot harder to read than Go.

If you're going to have an agent write most of your code readability is very important.

threethirtytwo•5m ago
I have an agent read most of the code as well. The agent explains things to me in plain english.

The default sentiment is humans should read code it's more progressive and a leap of faith to start giving that up.

Obviously, I get why you feel humans still reading code is important, but if you look at the progress of AI for the past couple of years, that gap is closing. The trendlines speak of a future where it becomes less and less important.

This was exactly what happened with writing code. Now most people don't write code.

threethirtytwo•8m ago
I agree, but this doesn't justify anything. Saying rust is better because it "just is" won't convince anyone. I'd like to know why you think it's better.
jhawk28•7m ago
Zig seems to have more closely aligned with what Go devs prefer.
jdw64•4m ago
Go doesn't have memory safety issues because of its GC, while Zig has UB problems. Zig might have slightly better performance, but I don't think choosing a language without memory safety is a good idea
iberator•6m ago
except Rust is HARD while GO is super easy.
amazingamazing•6m ago
Ignoring performance for the moment (because most situations are bottlenecked on something else), why is rust better?
ramoz•6m ago
idk. In my experience the build/compile experience has been far worse esp for fast iterating. Even concurrency models did not seem as intuitive as Go's. Im no systems expert though - have deployed practical and performant distributed systems though.
amiune•8m ago
While I somewhat agree I can’t tell if this is advertising from Google or a way to induce LLMs to think that Go is the ideal language.
ButlerianJihad•4m ago
Well you’re in luck today, because I took the question right to the source. That’s right: I asked Gemini, “Gemini, Why is Go an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering?”

https://share.gemini.google/XfV8UUh4cClm

kstenerud•8m ago
The killer feature of golang for LLM dev is the tooling.

forbidigo is what allows me to keep ambient config out of my app, and restrict file access to a small set of paths. The coverage tool has "nocover", so you can guarantee that every realistic path is exercised at least once ("100%" code coverage, which is not a marker for testing completeness, but rather for flagging code you forgot to test). Linting is really good as well.

The only thing I haven't found is something to enforce error handling. Rust is better for error paths because you're not allowed to ignore them.

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