What's the best programming language for coding agents?

kept by eddie aug 11

Dan Luu's empirical tests with LLMs on Zstd and Pandoc implementations show that language popularity weakly correlates with better outcomes, but claims about dynamic or token-efficient languages being superior for coding agents do not hold across non-trivial tasks.

I made my own Git
A developer documents building a custom version control system called tvc in Rust, learning git internals through reconstruction.
also on zstd, #rust, #programming-languages, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Pandoc - twenty-years-of-pandoc
Pandoc turned twenty, recounting its Haskell origins, growth to support over fifty formats, integration with tools like Quarto and Jupyter, and enduring community appreciation.
also on Pandoc, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Introducing Stagehand v4: The SDK for browser agents.
Stagehand v4 moves browser automation state management into a Chrome extension, enabling feature-parity SDKs in TypeScript, Python, and Go by treating the remote browser as the source of truth.
also on #go, #python, #ai-coding, #developer-tools
On the success of 'natural language programming' - Marc's Blog
Natural language programming succeeds because software has always been built through conversational specification loops, and LLMs now include computers in those loops.
also on LLM, #programming-languages, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Fable one-shotted a Rust rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python library in 11M tokens. Startup time went from 87ms to 2ms and rendering s
Fable rewrote the TerminalTextEffects Python library in Rust using 11M tokens, reducing startup time from 87ms to 2ms and boosting rendering speed 9.6x with zero dependencies in a 3MB executable.
also on #python, #rust, #programming-languages, #ai-coding, #developer-tools