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I hear people say that Go is often hard to search online (hence sometimes "Golang"), but the vast majority of language names are common words. Names with punctuation (C++, C#) are hard too. Is this a big problem in practice? "Perl" isn't a dictionary word, but it's an exception.

Assertions are a surprisingly nuanced design space. In a test, if I assert `x < y`, I really want to see the values of x and y when it fails. Do you define an API for every possible predicate (Python's assertLess, expect.js) or try to support the native syntax (c.f. pytest)?

I'm pretty impressed with Cursor: I've successfully asked it to perform codebase transforms in English, and it's worked! E.g. "Replace all calls foo(..., true) with foo_immediate(...) define a foo_immediate function". I'm still reading the diff and checking tests -- it's still AI after all.