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I deeply disagree with this. With Good Old Fashioned Dev Tools like Zero TurnAround, ReSharper, PyCharm, Clang tools, etc. the tool was specific to the language

I deeply disagree with this. With Good Old Fashioned Dev Tools like Zero TurnAround, ReSharper, PyCharm, Clang tools, etc. the tool was specific to the language stack. Esoteric languages would simply not have many tools. All the LLM-based tool needs is to hoover up some code on GitHub, or even just your other project files as context, and it will start generating useful stuff. On top of that, translating between languages just became a whole lot easier.

cle 3y ago
What other project files or GitHub code? It’s a new language. And what does “hoover up” mean? Use the context window for language basics? RAG? Retrain the model? Also the LLM won’t have been trained on the vast corpus of debugging sessions, blog posts, etc of existing languages. I’d expect the quality to be very poor compared to the current top players. (It’s effectively the same phenomenon as folks sticking to languages with a big hiring pool.)