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		istjohn 36 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fun with uv and PEP 723 I needed to process a 2 GB xml file the other day. While my Python script was chugging away, I had Claude translate it to Go. The vibe-coded Go program then processed the file before my original Python script terminated. That was the first time I ever touched Go, but it certainly won't be the last.

rednafi 36 days ago [–]

Go is pretty awesome. I’m sure that spending some time with the script would have made it at least 50 times faster than Python.

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