This is the second time this week im reading that golang is that powerful.

I thought it’s a poorly designed language with GC pauses so it surprised me that the ts compiler was written in it.

Honestly the bigger question is why we still write glue code at all. Let the agent orchestrate.

> why use Python

when I said “the ecosystem” I didn’t mean of libraries and other developers, I meant of recruiters and hiring managers

and whose humiliation ritual I could pass

This hits hard, specially for PHP. Previously we had devs "who only knew" PHP, and once they started vibe coding most have started using Go.

As a benefit i find that static types help AI to make correct/better decisitions than you see in PHP (where types are mostly only class types, nominal or primitive [lol no generics])

But its pretty much true, i will forsee a fall in dynamic languges, as the usecase is pretty much void and null.

I recently started a game project in Rust aided by Claude Code because I asked myself that same question. I like Rust, but it is definitely harder than C# for me. But with the AI aid, doesn't seem to matter which language I use. So I take the performance and safety wins.

Writing is half of the equation. Once written, you have to maintain it. That usually required understanding the language.

Simplicity of deployment. No need to compile. People bitch about virtualenvs but they pretty much just work.

Also, totally FOSS. Unparalleled library ecosystem (no, I don't buy into the hype about re-rolling all your own dependencies).

Beyond that, Go is kind of nice, but the lack of a inheritance is stifling. Python has everything that's needed and very little that's not.

Edit: Getting downvoted, probably because of the comment about virtualenvs. What's your alternative? .NET DLL's? The joke that is NPM? Go probably does this better, admittedly, but Python is practically one of the best out there.

Agreed. People should just use JavaScript since it's the one with the largest training set.

"Rust, [...], a build system that fought you"

I started using Rust in 2018 and I've never used a build system that fought me less, ever, before or after.

I stopped reading after that sentence.

>Smaller languages like Zig, Haskell and Gleam don’t have the same quality when AI-generated (for now).

GPT 5.5 writes good haskell.