Comment by forrestthewoods

Comment by forrestthewoods 16 hours ago

Why the hell is a CLI coding agent built in JavaScript?

It’s wild what happens when a generation of programmers doesn’t know anything except webdev. How far from grace we have fallen.

simonw 16 hours ago

The big advantage of a language like JavaScript of Python for a CLI tool of this nature is that they naturally support adding extensions or plugins.

That's quite a bit harder if your tool is built using a compiled language like Go.

forrestthewoods 4 hours ago

Ehhhh. In either case you have to define a neat clean plugin API. Whether it loads a DLL/SO or just some scripts isn’t that huge of a difference.

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