Is Python Becoming Pinyin?

Post by drob518 » Tue, Jun 02, 2026, 3:10 PM UTC

Garlef wrote: post #59

drob518 wrote: post #51

The post focuses on Python, but I think it touches on an interesting question before skipping past it: ideally, what language would be best for our AIs to be programming in? The article says Rust. But can we do better? Rust has strong typing and memory guarantees which I think are important, but it’s also slower to compile. If we’re going to be doing agentic programming, where the agent is operating in a tight loop,…

> what language would be best for our AIs to be programming in I think "batteries included" is not a good thing to have in the future. We'll want to be very explicit about what AI generated code can and can not do. And so some form of effects based scripting language seems like a plausible choice: A language where by default "all batteries are removed".

Good point. I think you’re right. We need more rigor for the AI, which would actually help code generation, I suspect. Included batteries are for humans and AIs don’t need convenience.

Post by waffletower » Tue, Jun 02, 2026, 3:53 PM UTC

"(O)ther well-known developers are now writing code in languages they don’t know. It’s as striking as a Poet Laureate of the United States writing poetry in a language they don’t speak" This statement ought to be embarrassing to the author, but unfortunately the brazenness of this statement shows how far The Humanities have declined in attention for our culture. Let's try this as taking the poetry approach is probably hopeless -- I have never written any Haskell. I have lived in Japan for 5 1/2 years. I can read and understand Haskell far more than I can Japanese. Programming languages are far far far smaller and less complex than natural languages, and share many characteristics among them, despite their differences.

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