[spacedatum]

There is no reason to continue writing Python in 2026. Tell Claude to write Rust apriori. Your future self will thank you.

[JoshPurtell]

I do both and compile times are very unfriendly to AI!

[spacedatum]

Compile times, I can live with. You can run previous models on the gpu while your new model is compiling. Or switch from cargo to bazel if it is that bad.

[JoshPurtell]

What compile times do you work with? I use bazel and it still hurts

[spacedatum]

It is a tradeoff, but I prefer my checks at compile time to runtime. Python can be brittle and silently wrong.

[wiseowise]

What kind of type checking do you think Rust does at runtime?

[spacedatum]

Google it and try it yourself.