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What If Lock-In Doesn’t Matter So Much Anymore?

Kottke 20 May 2026 1h ago
What If Lock-In Doesn’t Matter So Much Anymore?
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Interesting observation by Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Vagrant and Ghostty ) on how a company’s or product’s choice of programming language matters less in the age of agentic programming: On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Programming languages used to be LOCK IN, and they’re increasingly not so. You think the Bun rewrite in Rust is good for Rust? Bun ha
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