#Yes its a really nice stack.
young jackal
honestly? could be worth a try? i managed to 3-5 python rewrites to golang in like 2-3 days and its 100% worth it. i'd recommend getting your agents to decompose it, suggest an overall holistic architecture, write RFCs for each stage, and then they could probably blast through it in idk a week if you're careful and your app can be sliced and diced and migrated in smaller components?
simple magnet
hm sounds like a decent approach. Im intrigued to try it but my php setup has evolved to be actually quite decent to use with agents (tests, code sniffers, static analysis, strict typing (as much as php allows)). I'm a bit scared of breaking stuff though, its AdTech with existing users and continously optimizing advertising campaigns so I can't really afford any new bugs or data ingestion/processing issues. The existing php tests would probably help a lot in migrating though.
I'm also not really good at golang myself which could be an issue. Are you experienced in golang?
young jackal
wait, i'll get clawdis to try and write me a blog post 😆
i am a horrible golang programmer and i hated it (until last week) because the compiler shouts at me a lot and you need to get pointers right and lots of other boring things.
simple magnet
For my main code I still like that I can fix anything in php manually because i've been writing it all my life. The go, swiftui and python stuff i created I barely understand at time 😄
young jackal
same tbh. python guy for 12-15 years, some java at BigTech job the last few years. stopped writing code in septmber, am fully nix-pilled now, and golang pilled. i dont read the code any more.
doing this with existing users might be harder though, i'm using this for internal projects only. IMO its still very doable if you're careful and scope the blast radius
simple magnet
wait, i'll get clawdis to try and write me a blog post 😆
i am a horrible gola...
I feel that, especially coming from PHP. In the older versions without strict types you could basically do whatever you want and it would run whatever atrocity you built
simple magnet
same tbh. python guy for 12-15 years, some java at BigTech job the last few year...
Same, the main customer facing application is the only thing where i still manually review every line of code because I wouldn't risk my income by fully trusting claude/codex (yet).
you got x or anything where you share your experiences? always looking for people to follow who build stuff
young jackal
@jjpcodes! happy to follow you back 🙂
also spinning up that blog post and a new domain name as we speak 😆
simple magnet
haha nice!