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Ehhhh, a year ago I'd have agreed with you — LLMs were noticeably worse with Elixir than with bigger langs. But I'm not noticing that anymore, at least with El
by arrowsmith 1y ago
Ehhhh, a year ago I'd have agreed with you — LLMs were noticeably worse with Elixir than with bigger langs.
But I'm not noticing that anymore, at least with Elixir. The gap has closed; Claude 4 and Gemini 2.5 both write it excellently.
Otoh, if you wanted to create an entirely new programming language in 2025, you might be shit outta luck.
- rglover 1y ago> Otoh, if you wanted to create an entirely new programming language in 2025, you might be shit outta luck. This just made me really sad. That effectively means that we'll plateau indefinitely as a civilization (not just on programming languages, but anything where the LLM can create an artificial Lindy effect).
- drbojingle 1y agoUnless the new language was a super set of an existing language. I think a stricter version of python or even typescript could be do-able.
- arrowsmith 1y agoGood point
- bigfishrunning 1y ago> Otoh, if you wanted to create an entirely new programming language in 2025, you might be shit outta luck. Or, do what you want, and don't worry what language people who have no interest in programming use.