Ask HN: Any objective research on which languages are best for AI agents?

3•mwigdahl•1h ago

I keep reading articles that suggest that Rust or Go or some other language is optimal for AI development because of feature X or lack of issue Y.

Has there been any actual head to head comparison of this using frontier models? Any benchmarks that purport to measure this?

Comments

steveklabnik•1h ago

The frontier moves quickly enough that empiric testing is often out of date by the time that it’s published.

mwigdahl•1h ago

For sure! It's possible there are relatively invariant properties that make one language or another "better" for LLM coding in general though (even if that's just the self-fulfilling prophecy of size of the training corpus).

steveklabnik•45m ago

I’m in agreement that I think that these exist, but I just haven’t seen anything that justifies this belief of mine yet. I have been looking, but it’s possible I just haven’t seen anything seen it.

I’ve seen a lot of blog posts with fairly dubious claims here with relatively flimsy evidence. And I’ve seen a few papers trying to tackle the topic. But I think it’s a very open area of research currently.

andsoitis•19m ago

DSLs work especially well with LLMs. DSLs focus on a narrow set of concepts in a single domain.

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