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AlexandrByesterday at 4:37 PM1 replyview on HN

Will we ever even get a widespread new programming language? AIs work great for coding because they have massive codebases in C/C++/Python/JS/etc. to train on. If I create a language called "foo" tomorrow, no such codebase will exist for it and the lack of AI support for the language will be a huge barrier for adoption so it's going to be much less likely to catch on like Python did back in the day.


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matheusmoreirayesterday at 10:42 PM

I'm working on my own lisp. I've used ChatGPT to generate some cases for my test suite. Somehow it can generate decent code if I instruct it thoroughly enough and provide samples. Maybe the fact all lisps have similar syntax helps?