Link: Danluu.pl: Programming language and token efficiency
In a somewhat non-specific titled blog post: What’s the best programming language for coding agents?, Dan Luu takes the time to actually investigate the question of which programming languages are more efficient in their token usage. Well technically the token usage of LLM models when writing in those programming languages. Primarily he’s interested in the claims that dynamic programming languages are more token efficient because the model needn’t write any type annotations. He is skeptical and I think the skepticism is warranted: ...