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Interesting, I am thinking/expecting we will see a massive decrease in new languages. Or people might make new languages but the will not get any adoption. A n
by pclowes 3mo ago
Interesting, I am thinking/expecting we will see a massive decrease in new languages. Or people might make new languages but the will not get any adoption.
A new language now has to clear the ever growing hurdle of not being in the LLM training data.
Unless the language provides an absolutely incredible technical or runtime advantage over every other language that LLMs “speak” well I think it will really struggle to gain adoption.
Additionally, a language’s qualitative benefits to human writers arguably matters less and less.
I used to live in my IDE. Now I use it maybe an hour each day even in a JVM based language. IDEs dont really matter as much anymore.
- mpweiher 3mo ago> A new language now has to clear the ever growing hurdle of not being in the LLM training data. I found this to be far less of a prblen than I thought it would be. Do you have practical experience?
- pclowes 3mo agoNot with a new language but novel approaches within a framework or paradigm feel outside the LLM wheelhouse. Even if the LLM is adept at novel languages the developer still has to learn it and learning new languages now when most programming is done via a prompt-review loop feels like it has lower ROI.
- christophilus 3mo agoI find they’re pretty good with Odin. Not as good as with Go, and nowhere near as good as Typescript, but definitely good enough.