Link: Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering
The Google developers blog has published a post Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering. How to say this nicely, I don’t think much of this post. First of all, I think this is a great area of active research. Just as we aren’t terribly sure about what makes a good programming language for humans, we also do not know exactly what makes a good programming language for LLMs. It does seem that it is useful to have a lot of code from a programming language in the training data for an LLM, but I think that’s a slightly different (if more pragmatic) question than what makes a fundamentally good programming language for an LLM. But note also, if we determined some kind of fundamentally good programming language (even a new one) for an LLM we could probably get over the lack of training data in several ways. ...