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1. bnchrc+56[view] [source] 2025-12-13 17:46:50
>>tymsca+(OP)
Gleam is a beautiful language, and what I wish Elixir would become (re:typing).

For those that don't know its also built upon OTP, the erlang vm that makes concurrency and queues a trivial problem in my opinion.

Absolutely wonderful ecosystem.

I've been wanting to make Gleam my primary language, but I fear LLMs have frozen programming language advancement and adoption for anything past 2021.

But I am hopeful that Gleam has slid just under the closing door and LLMs will get up to speed on it fast.

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2. Uehrek+Vh[view] [source] 2025-12-13 19:20:34
>>bnchrc+56
> I fear LLMs have frozen programming language advancement and adoption for anything past 2021.

Why would that be the case? Many models have knowledge cutoffs in this calendar year. Furthermore I’ve found that LLMs are generally pretty good at picking up new (or just obscure) languages as long as you have a few examples. As wide and varied as programming languages are, syntactically and ideologically they can only be so different.

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3. schrod+mp[view] [source] 2025-12-13 20:13:57
>>Uehrek+Vh
The motivation isn’t there to create new languages for humans when you’re programming at a higher level of abstraction now (AI prompting).

It’d be like inventing a new assembly language when everyone is writing code in higher level languages that compile to assembly.

I hope it’s not true, but I believe that’s what OP meant and I think the concern is valid!

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4. rapind+ws[view] [source] 2025-12-13 20:35:04
>>schrod+mp
We may end up using AI to create simplified bespoke subset languages that fit our preferences. Like a DSL of sorts but with better performance characteristics than a traditional DSL and a small enough surface area.
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