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andreybaskovtoday at 6:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's a legitimate question to ask about any new language post AI - given there is no training dataset, any other language would work better with AI.

The bigger problem is maintainability over the long term, Deno is built by Node.js creator and is maintained for half a decade now, that's hard to compete with. In a way it's much more about social trust rather than particular syntax.


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embedding-shapetoday at 7:54 PM

> given there is no training dataset, any other language would work better with AI.

I guess it depends on what "would work better" really means, but I don't think it's always a given. I've made my own languages, there is no available training set on exactly those, but AI with a prompt can figure out how to effectively use them as much as any other language, it seems to me. I guess it helps that most languages are more similar to each other than different, but even experimenting with new syntax seems to work out OK for me.

verdvermtoday at 8:31 PM

I'd also add all the other things that users expect around a language:

- GitHub syntax highlighting

- IDE integrations, LSP

- Modules and dependency management

I don't see an agent first language becoming a thing while humans are still ultimately responsible.