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Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust

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  1. muglug · · focus · HN ↗
    > Rust is the best general-purpose language for the new world of AI-driven development.

    Funny, the Python guys say Python is the best general-purpose language for AI and the Go guys say Go is the best general-purpose language for AI etc etc

    1. nobleach · · focus · HN ↗
      I have prompted a LOT of Go in the past few months. While LLMs do indeed know Go very well, the amount of over-abstraction I'm seeing is awful. It's not at all indicative of code that I'd write myself. The whole point of Go is to have a language that is immediately approachable by juniors. And I've tried to keep my code in that lane. The reason I won't prompt Rust at all, is that I know it'll output working code... that I likely will not understand. (that's not the LLM's fault)
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