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Go is a language one can learn and become functional in an afternoon. Rust is way more involved.

To vibe coders it doesn't matter, right?

Even then, you still need to read that code and Rust is way less read friendly than Go.

I have the impression that most vibe coders don't read code. I guess they would probably use something accessible to them, just in case.

Successful vibe coders read code.

I'm looking forward to watching Gas Town catch fire, if and when it does.

If you already know some php python javascript and/or c, you can pretty much just wing with Claude code.

Frankly I don't think one even needs to learn it, if you know a bunch of other languages and the codebase is good. I was able to just make a useful change to an open source project by just doing it, without having written any lines of Go before. Granted the MR needed some revisions.

Rust is my favorite, though. There are values beyond ease of contribution. I can't replicate the experience with a Rust project anymore, but I suspect it would have been tougher.

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