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1. muglug · 1790345200 · 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. binarin · 1790348089 · focus · HN ↗

      It's the Python guys whom I totally don't understand - it's all fun and dandy until you try to maintain and cleanup a legacy codebase of tens of millions lines of code in any dynamic language :)

      With or without AI - doesn't matter. Only at that point you gain understanding of the limitations both of LLMs and of dynamic languages.

      edit: Forgot about "Nightmare" difficulty - try enjoying dynamic languages and LLMs when your legacy codebase is earning tens of thousands $ per second.

      1. orf · 1790355121 · focus · HN ↗

         > your legacy codebase is earning tens of thousands $ per second.

         Your legacy codebase generates ~300 billion a year?

         1. binarin · 1790356635 · focus · HN ↗

            Okay - not earning, but processing. Adjust the figure a bit for varying traffic patterns during week and seasonality, and it'll be kinda like that.

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