alt Hacker Newshmm, yeah given LLM's ability to churn out lots of code quickly and be overly verbose in that code that is a potential downside. That it could in a quick one time edit create so much intellectual overhead that Python might be the wrong language to understand what is going on.
What language do you feel is easier to reason about in the large?
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jimmaswell • today at 9:11 AM
C# is as close to an ideal language as you can get for most things IMO. I find AI does a great job with it.
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harperlee • today at 8:57 AM
I'd say Java, because it has a massive footprint amenable for training, and a strong type system (does not have sum types though and those are trendy).
You'd have to steer the LLM to use the style you want, and not massively overarchitect things though, but that's going to be an issue nonetheless.
Haskell would be my vote, and Rust too, actually, both because of their very strong type systems. The type system lets you very quickly figure out what something is before you figure out what something does, and it turns out that separating those two concerns as hard as those two languages do often results in doing the whole one-two punch faster.