Time for lower level languages?

I’ve always been intrigued by Go. It’s powerful, fast (I really like fast), and simple. The tradeoff? It’s simple. Coming from higher level languages like PHP & JavaScript, Go can feel crude.

As I’ve recently written, this blog went back to Hugo. Hugo is also fast and crude. But with LLMs, the crudeness of things doesn’t hurt as much as before. I don’t need to deal with writing it anymore, and crude is still readable.

From Just Fucking Use Go:

The boring choice is the right choice. It always was.

I agree. More than ever, I have an urge to dabble into lower level languages. AI is a huge layer of complexity we’re adding to our tooling. Let’s use it to trim the fat from our outputs.