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It seems to me that right now is an especially awkward time to launch a new programming language competing with Python, because LLMs are great at writing Python
by blueblimp 3y ago
It seems to me that right now is an especially awkward time to launch a new programming language competing with Python, because LLMs are great at writing Python, and presumably can't write your new language at all (since there's no data for it yet). The linked post does not seem to address this.
- dagmx 3y agoMojo consumes python so it can build on that. However that assumes that LLMs are a significant part of new written code (unlikely), or a significant learning source (maybe) and can’t be adapted to mojo (they probably will be)
- singularity2001 3y agoPython Type notations are already part of the learning corpus and can probably be generalized to Mojo. many specifics are probably almost one short learning. LLMs can easily adopt new styles once the general model is 'understood'
- ModernMech 3y agoYou'd think this, but ChatGPT is able to write code in my programming language after I feed it just a few examples. It's not perfect, but it knows enough about adjacent language that it can actually write pretty good code in my language. The problem is you have to keep reminding it about the language fundamentals, or it will start making things up as your prompts get further and further from the first examples.
- ezekiel68 3y agoI can't but respond that this seems like the very least compelling reason not to innovate on computer language design & implementation.