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aleph_minus_one | on: What's the best programming language for coding agents?
> Dynamically typed languages generally have a lower LLM token cost than traditional statically typed languages because omitting explicit type declarations makes the code more compact.

If this was true, the programming languages that are very much on the left side of

> https://danuker.go.ro/programming-languages.html#non-math-ma...

> https://danuker.go.ro/programming-languages.html#overall-map

should be very ideal for LLMs, in particular if they are dynamically typed.

What I can tell you is: I experimented with AI prompts for generating Wolfram (Mathematica) code using some LLMs, and I can tell you that the results were very disappointing: in my experience LLMs have difficulties with programming languages that are

- very concise, and

- for which there is less code publicly available.

Wolfram (Mathematica) is a good example of such a programming language.

JoeyJoJoJr | parent | next
I’ve actually found Sol delivers great results with Odin, despite there not being much Odin code available. I think it is able to work well with it because:

- It is a rather simple language - It has a lot of very useful libraries already built in.

With just a single main.odin file you can do a heck of a lot stuff, which LLMs seem to like.

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acchow | parent | next
> omitting explicit type declarations makes the code more compact.

I guess this ignores languages with type inference? Hindley-Milner and others

frollogaston | parent
Training data is a factor too