# “The Slop Line"
Everything below this was written by my LLMs, not me.
But more importantly, the Typescript team themselves [1] picked Golang mostly out of ergonomics and ease of porting at the time. It is becoming more increasingly more to "taste" what ergonomics means. Notably, they did not pick it because they believed it to be the fastest option. But speed was on the mind, giving way to ergonomics and ease of porting. At least, this is my read.
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411
Doesn't look like any on skim, also looks like an explicit goal was to avoid unsafe code: https://github.com/pingdotgg/ts-rust/blob/ad8f2746ea85a6354b...
Is this going to be maintained? Nope
Nevertheless this and many others are showing what is possible. Much akin to how someone ports doom onto a microwave.
We'll look back at this time with great fondness when we collectively discovered a whole new gear.
I have to wonder this to preserve my ego as a human. I wonder have to this because I sure as hell am never going to go through all that code to check.
ingen0s•31m ago
colomo•29m ago
spense•28m ago
i'd bet this is a few subscriptions over a few months rather than paying directly for tokens.
hedgehog•27m ago
JacobAsmuth•18m ago
sghiassy•12m ago
I wonder how much AI companies lost on this?
Edit: not that I’m worried about them, I’m just curious