jeanbza

My first language is Afrikaans, which is a somewhat niche language and hard to find teachers/conversation buddies outside South Africa. (I live in USA now)

I've been using Gemini to live chat in Afrikaans and do impromptu Afrikaans grammar lessons during my solo drives around town. It is phenomenal at speaking the language - like, it really shocks my family members when they hear it.

This is probably the most joy I get from any of my usages of LLMs/AIs. It's been really, really nice getting to speak my language regularly again. =)

So, I'm excited about this release and live chat getting better. I also hope the other frontier labs pick up niche languages like this as well so that I have more options.

Darn, sorry: https://jeanbza.github.io/ai/claude/2026/08/13/google-codere...

Looks like I can't edit the link though. :(

I have been waiting for generic methods and can't wait to use them!

The `go fix` modernisers are also great, have already run them in several repos.

Yes, this. =) I talk to Go users around the company all the time. Their feedback has been in this direction for a bit now.

> why do you think Go is better compared to other languages?

I didn't say that. :)

> where do the results claiming that AI agents generate superior Go code actually come from?

Like I said - reports from users.

> Is it a fair, apples-to-apples comparison?

No - these are reports from users, not a systematic analysis.

Definitely agree with this article.

At Netflix, I lead the Go language guild. We've been seen increasing reports of users finding their AI agents writing better Go code than other languages, and increasing reports of projects favouring Go over other languages.

Two additional notes I'll add:

- Go has _great_ resources on writing good Go code, including treasure troves at https://go.dev/doc/effective_go and https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/. edit: Sorry, I forgot to add: we give these resources to AI agents and they use them to produce even better Go code.

- For a language team, Go is a dream. The `go fix` tooling, AST/SSA packages, ease of reading and writing `go.mod` (go mod edit, etc), and various other "platform"-y features make modifying Go code at scale way easier than other languages.