About whether Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted coding, given its tricky concurrency.
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About whether Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted coding, given its tricky concurrency.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
To combine both TFA with this comment: I find that LLMs are ~fine at generating/editing gocode, or at least as ~fine as they generate most mainstream languages.
But good god, the second it gets to anything concurrency-related, it just loses its mind. As much as it's gotten vaguely ok to try to let the agents loose on some bits of the codebase, they simply can't even do table stakes stuff with the kinds of concurrency you see in real life.