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Literary? Haha

> On occasion you have to compile apps from source

That's fine for people on hn, but it instantly wipes out any chance of non technical users on Windows and Mac. It's a total deal breaker.

I suppose you could try typescript which can compile to a single binary using node or bun. Both bun and node do type stripping of ts types, and can compile a cli to a single file executable. This is what anthropic does for Claude code.

Yes. Have you ever tried trpc?

Typescript is ubiquitous in web, and there are some amazing new frameworks that reuse typescript types on the server and client (trpc, tanstack). It's faster (than python), has ergonomic types, and a massive community + npm ecosystem. Bun advances the state of the art for runtime performance (which anthropic just bought and use for Claude code).

I thought this was going to be a longer rant about how python needs to... Go away. Which, as a long time python programmer and contributor, and at one time avid proponent of the language, I would entertain the suggestion. I think all of ML being in Python is a collosal mistake that we'll pay for for years.

The main reasons being it is slow, its type system is significantly harder to use than other languages, and it's hard to distribute. The only reason to use it is inertia. Obviously inertia can be sufficient for many reasons, but I would like to see the industry consider python last, and instead consider typescript, go, or rust (depending on use case) as a best practice. Python would be considered deprecated and only used for existing codebases like pytorch. Why would you write a web app in Python? Types are terrible, it's slow. There are way better alternatives.

Who really cares? The goalpost of "AI is useless because I can't vibe code novel discoveries" is a strawman. AI and vibe coding are transformational. So are AI-enhanced efforts to solve longstanding, difficult scientific problems. If cancer is cured with AI assistance, does it really matter if it was vibe-cured or state-of-the-art-lab-cured?

It's true. Why should everyone look up the same API docs and make the same mistakes when AI can write it for you instantly and correctly?