Re: Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

I feel like everyone has some sort of justification for why their pet language is now the best because LLMs can work in it better for a bunch of reasons.

Javascript/Python is the best because there's so much code out there that the LLMs can train on, and LLMs can write lots of tests to make sure everything is correct. There's nothing to compile, so the LLM can iterate quickly.

Rust is the best because the LLM gets great feedback from the compiler because of its strong type system, and it can deal with the borrow checker for you.

Go is the best because it's a simpler language with a decent type system, and the LLM can reason about that well, and will never forget to check an `err` return. The compiler is fast, so the LLM can iterate quickly.

I could write similar praise for C, C++, Java...

At this point I don't think any language is the best "because LLMs". I think there are quite a few languages that LLMs are probably not good at, but you have lots of choices if you want something they are good at.

kelnos, 8 hours ago