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Time for lower level languages?

Sebastian De Deyne argues that lower-level languages like Go are becoming more viable as AI tools handle the complexity of writing code, reducing the pain of their "crudeness." The developer, who recently moved his blog back to Hugo, suggests that with LLMs handling the writing, developers can prioritize speed and simplicity over ease of use. This shift challenges the dominance of higher-level languages like PHP and JavaScript by leveraging AI to offset their learning curves.

read1 min publishedJun 10, 2026

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.

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