Simon Willison comments on creating new programming languages with AI:
My hunch is that existing LLMs make it easier to build a new programming language in a way that captures new developers.
My take? Likely an unpopular one. Most modern programming languages were made to be human readable; yet, LLMs don’t need us to make new languages human readable at all. In fact, much of the features, structures, and methods built into them could likely be removed all together.
I know Simon’s comment wasn’t on how LLMs could make all-new LLM-only programming languages — but I think we’re going to start to see that happening at some point.