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In the age of powerful LLMs, is there really any reason to program in any higher abstraction than C? Seems like most other languages can be put out to pasture. They were just compromises and shortcuts to make things easier for humans.

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Because LLMs make mistakes, and you want to prevent that? No wonder Rust is becoming the default language for high-performance LLM-written code. I hope Roc becomes a viable option soon, as it reaches stability.

> No wonder Rust is becoming the default language for high-performance LLM-written code.

What's the evidence for this claim?

oh wow, so mistakes can be prevented by merely picking Rust. wow.

For some categories of mistake, yes.

Yes, nobody wants to have to spot a memory bug in C code.

Indeed nobody wants to review LLM generated slop.

So being able to know that this code cannot contain memory bugs, race conditions, etc is extremely valuable.

I might go a far as to claim: I'd be okay with the AI using an obscure language, if I can know the code is free from memory issue, race conditions and has no side effects, etc.

The argument that with LLMs pure functional language that I didn't bother to write before is now viable.

Memory bugs are also just bugs. If you want to remove also others bugs, you need to formally verify, which soon AI and tools will also just do for you.

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