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1. marlie+f5[view] [source] 2025-12-13 17:40:23
>>tymsca+(OP)
One thing im wondering with the LLM age we seem to be entering: is there value in picking up a language like this if theres not going to be a corpus of training data for an LLM to learn from? Id like to invest the time to learn Gleam, but I treat a language as a tool, or a means to an end. I feel like more and more I'm reaching for the tool to get the job done most easily, which are languages that LLMs seem to gel with.
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2. dragon+ra[view] [source] 2025-12-13 18:19:12
>>marlie+f5
Its pretty much the same thing as in every previous age, where not having a community of experience and the supporting materials they produce has been a disadvantage to early adopters of a new language, so the people that used it first were people with a particular need that it seemed to address that offset that for them, or that had a particular interest in being in the vanguard.

And those people are the people that develop the body of material that later people (and now LLMs) learn from.

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