What Anders Hejlsberg thinks about Python

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Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

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1. 13 May 2026

   Our readingThe 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.

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   Their wordsthat the language that's most suited for AI is the language that AI has seen the most of in its training set, right? And that's why you could argue AI does really well on JavaScript and TypeScript and Python because it's seen an awful lot of it

   ↗TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsbergyoutube.com 19th of 26 in this recording