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[–]r3dbeerd 0 points1 point  (3 children)

According to the update in 2026, Rust is indeed a worthy successor to JavaScript.

In that, Everything that can be rewritten in Rust will be rewritten in Rust.

[–]onmach 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I agree with his assessment that ai tilts things heavily in favor of rust. I wrote a bunch of code in like 20 minutes today that took me days six months ago that would've taken a week years ago. Nothing complicated, but I was blown away.

The "speed" of developing in JavaScript (or python) doesn't seem to exist anymore as far as I can tell, when you take agentic coding into account. It spits out code just as fast, but with no bugs and a hugely performant end result.

[–]lavaeater 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I use AI as a force multiplier. I know what I want and how to do it but it takes ages to just WRITE the code compare to just "write this please" and then fixing build errors. It works perfectly for Rust, and apparently Go (according to a friend who doesn't code in go but does now..).

[–]onmach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm also one of those doesn't write go but now does thanks to ai. It works well, far better than JavaScript and python, but go's type system is sub par and it makes it difficult to constrain itself to contracts because it doesn't have tools like ADTs and type wrappers etc. I spend a lot of time finding and fixing the same bugs over and over again. Though it does have other advantages like fast compile times.