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At the centre The language best suited to AI is simply the one the models have seen most of in training, which is why they do so well on JavaScript, TypeScript and Python. Holds AHAnders Hejlsberg Read this korrent →

• Same subject: TypeScript, JavaScript A proprietary language licensed from Microsoft had zero chance in the JavaScript ecosystem: TypeScript had to be open source or nobody would come. Holds AHAnders Hejlsberg
• Same subject: TypeScript, JavaScript Because its types are erased before the program runs, TypeScript can afford not to be sound: checking 99% beats the 0% JavaScript checked, and buys features a sound language cannot offer. Holds AHAnders Hejlsberg
• Same subject: TypeScript, JavaScript TypeScript's type annotations cost more in friction than they return in safety, and a front-end framework is better off written in plain JavaScript. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Same subject: Python A language can keep changing without a Python-2-to-3 break, as long as code written under the old and the new rules can be mixed freely in one program. Holds ARAlice Ryhl
• Same subject: Python Python is ugly: full of superfluous instructions kept since 1987 for legacy reasons, and its __init__ offends the sensibilities to the core. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Same subject: Python Writing lines of Python or C++ may stop being necessary; understanding how code, computer systems and products work will not. Holds ESElizabeth Stone
• Same subject: TypeScript A programming language is a ten-year play: version one has issues, version two fixes them, version three is finally good — and only then does adoption start. Holds AHAnders Hejlsberg
• Same subject: TypeScript For a TypeScript team, Rust belongs on the backend — API servers — and not in the front end. Holds ARAlice Ryhl