Make money doing the work you believe in
Thought this was a good and broadly correct take even though it is written in part by AI. Tldr: just use rust (or go if you need async)
What’s left of “but the ecosystem” is this: the packages you import in Python and JavaScript are increasingly wrappers around code written in languages you were told you couldn’t ship in. Now you can ship in those languages directly, and the wrapper is starting to look like overhead.
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The old defense of Python and TypeScript was really a defense of the developer experience. Those languages were chosen because they minimized the friction between a human’s idea and a shipped product. Rust was never slower at runtime; it was slower at 2am when you had to ship.
Agents do the hard part now.
The human’s job shifted from “writing the code” to “architecting the system and reviewing the output.” In that workflow, Python’s ergonomic advantages matter less every quarter, and a harder language’s runtime advantages compound every day you run the service in production.